Dave's joke was the claim that Riv has done extensive testing to prove decidedly that the Roll-y Poll-y is the fastest and most comfortable tire available on the internet. That was a joke. Riv doesn't care about rolldown tests and statistical analysis. They ride what they make and they make stuff that they like riding. It was a tongue in cheek comment from Dave. The subtext is that they think the handwringing and nitpicking over the tiny minutia of tires might take peoples attention from what is fun about cycling.
Ron's joke was that there is nothing empirical in cycling. As a scientist, Ron was obviously joking. "Emprical" means you use your senses to experience the thing, and then let those sensed observations tell you what is true or what is not. Clearly Ron is an empiricist when it comes to cycling. He feels things for himself and he makes his decisions based on his experiences. The opposite of empirical is theoretical. Some people determine truth purely with reason. Obviously Ron does not think that we can just use our reason to sit and think about cycling and derive the optimum bike, or ride, or tire purely from first principals. That's absurd, and that's why Ron's comment about "nothing empirical in cycling" was a joke. On Friday, March 28, 2014 10:14:42 AM UTC-7, Michael wrote: > > I don't get the joke (was it a joke?). But I am not annoyed. >> > But I still say those checker patterns are very cool. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
