I don't know. Let's do a thought experiment. Let's assume that the wheels have a very high rotational inertia. Wouldn't that smooth out the sine wave you're talking about? The slowing down part is when rotational potential+kinetic energy gets converted to potential energy against gravity. Using a high rotational inertia will actually help in maintaining speed (to whatever extent it does) and thus create lower amplitude sine waves.
On Thursday, January 2, 2014 6:05:31 PM UTC-8, Anton Tutter wrote: > > When you're climbing a steep grade, you're not maintaining a constant > speed. If you graphed your speed over time, with time on the x-axis, you'd > see something resembling a sine wave. But your speedometer may not > register a change in speed because its averaging the speed over an > integration interval of probably several seconds. In this case I would > agree that rotational weight can clearly be felt, much more than static > weight. > > Anton > -- 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/groups/opt_out.
