I would measure the difference between you and Mr Wiggins and then offer to buy him a beer after you smoked him!
Sent from my iPad On Aug 7, 2012, at 2:43 PM, Anne Paulson <[email protected]> wrote: > So then if you timed me and Bradley Wiggins on the same course, with a > stopwatch, you couldn't tell that he was faster, because maybe you > weren't quite accurate with the stopwatch? No, you could easily tell, > because the tiny difference in the stopwatch pressing would be > overwhelmed by the fact that he is twice as fast as I am. > > Similarly with the tire tests. The differences between tires, > surprisingly, were very large. Whatever small noise got introduced by > stopwatch pressing was overwhelmed by the large measured differences > between slower tires and faster ones. > > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:05 AM, Robert Zeidler <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Unless you can guarantee no variance in wind speed or direction, however >> slight, or that the finger depressing the stop watch button at the exact >> same second, every single time, just to cite two of many variables, what you >> have is a Boy Scout Merit Badge project, not anything remotely resembling >> real research. >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On Aug 7, 2012, at 3:06 AM, Philip Williamson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> On Monday, August 6, 2012 5:16:03 PM UTC-7, z-man wrote: >>> >>> Not talking about a few centimeters. That's never even been suggested. I'm >>> talking about 12 or 20 mm bigger. >> >> >> I missed the antecedent for this. >> >>> >>> >>> You're not going to determine what rolls faster by rolling down a hill and >>> measuring with a stop watch. >> >> >> I can't think of another method to rank two rolly things except by rolling >> them, timing the speeds, and comparing the results. >> >> Genuinely puzzled, >> Philip >> biketinker.com >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/pBCUUB9POcEJ. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > > > -- > -- Anne Paulson > > My hovercraft is full of eels > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
