On Saturday, January 19, 2019 at 3:09:52 AM UTC, jbeattie wrote:
> On Friday, January 18, 2019 at 5:15:51 PM UTC-8, Andre Jute wrote:
> > On Friday, January 18, 2019 at 11:55:49 PM UTC,
slto...@gmail.com wrote:
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> > > Frank was a teacher.
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> > Frank's a jumped-up welder.
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> > >Yet he has extremely limited understanding of statistical analysis and economics so why should he be offering almost entirely incorrect opinions thereupon?
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> > You're giving Franki-boy altogether too much credit, Tom. Krygowski's knowledge of statistic analysis and interpretation is would be zero if he kept his mouth shut. But since he can't keep his mouth shut, and does damage to cause he tries to promote with statistics, we must conclude that his understanding of statistics is a negative quality. Here's an example: Franki-boy is always going on about how cycling is safer than a lot of people believe. He offered some numbers in proof. I went to the same sources, did a proper analysis, and discovered that ***cycling is even safer than Franki-boy Krygowski claimed!*** What a wanker. Of course the ungracious clown didn't thank me for saving him from his ignorance: instead he pretends that I see danger to cyclists where there is none. That's not all, Franki-boy knows he's incompetent to handle sampling statistics (and so he should be -- it's been pointed out to him often enough), so, if you bring an irrefutable case to RBT, he claims he isn't reading your post, even while commenting on them with a flow of ad hominem. A good example is a study of all accidents in which bicyclists were involved in New York, not a sampling study, an actual head count of all those referred to accident and emergency: absolutely irrefutable evidence that one of the biggest bees in Franki-boy's bonnet can't find its way back to the hive. But Franki-boy absolutely refuses to discuss the study or even to admit it exists. So, in consideration of these three points, I would say that Krygowski is useless with statistics, he knows he's useless with statistic, and he uses statistics to bully, to baffle, and to lie.
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> > > The basis of our disagreement was not because they are liberal but because they THINK they are liberal without even knowing the modern definition of that.
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> > Oh, I'm sure that Franki-boy and Slow Johnny and the several nasty anonymous emanations of the thief Peter Howard currently infesting RBT would be shocked if one explained to them why they are cultural Marxists. I don't know about Jay -- he's probably smart enough to understand that these clowns can't ever build anything, can only sneer and jeer and if there are enough of them destroy something they couldn't ever build -- but he runs with the crowd because it isn't worth the energy to stand up to the mob. They come and they go and there's no shortage of petty little men overflowing with envy, resentment and pure pointless malice to take their places. Rational people, with all the will in the world, cannot hope to stay ahead of assholes with opinions on everything.
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> Oh come on. Like you don't have an opinion on everything?
Nope. I have opinions on matters on which I've informed myself. Otherwise I have questions. Questions are good for increasing knowledge.
> Imagine a world where people did not have opinions -- on everything.
It's a nightmare. Parts of the net are like that, for instance RBT, which is supposed to be a tech conference. Supposed, I say.
> For example, I love STI.
I don't know what STI are and have no desire to discover what they are because I suspect that they will be unergonomic and a pain to set up and operate, and when the local cafe cyclists see me with them, they will again invite me to join their peloton which never gets beyond the last coffee dispensary in town to, as they say, "share the pain". I'm a Calvinist, dimbos: My place is reserved in Heaven, whatever I do, so I have no pain, no regrets and no guilt.
>Hydraulic discs are great, except for the plumbing and the occasional failed internal o-rings and resultant leakage. I just rebuilt a BR-RS785, and its working like a charm.
I have a front disc on one of my bikes, and the thing chewed pads and was always far too sudden, on or off with nothing in between, to much bother for someone who like watching the countryside and having a conversation with pedal pals.
> Di2 is really nice with that bleep-whirr shift thing, although totally unnecessary. I broke a wire on the rear derailleur giving the bike too vigorous of a wash on the wash stand (put the wire into the cassette), but I soldered that back together and did a shrink tube on it.
Now you're talking. I have a bike with Di2, but full auto shifting, not the cut down assisted shifting Shimano sells to racers. Also in the gruppo, electronically operated adaptive suspension. I'm a masher and would hang onto high gears too long, so the automatic box cut several minutes from a 45m ride I took on weekdays back when that bike was often in rotation. I had to reengineer the bike because the designer was a bit confused about its purpose and target customer, but Trek Benelux were absolutely marvellous with advice and parts, so I didn't have to do any soldering of fine wires, which I hate. (The sort of electronics I do is vacuum tube hi-fi, great big chunky components that you can see.)
>The wonder of modern bikes is that you can do plumbing, electrical and mechanical on your bike -- without a permit. One day I'm going to have to learn how to program the thing.
I just gave the manual to my teenage sun and promised him a new Mac if he got me up and running by the end of the week. That's actually very good advice for anything that is electronic and comes with a 300 and something page manual. Once I reduced everything of use to me to a flow chart on one side of a sheet of paper, I had it printed on plastic and the plastic laminated to protect the printing, and carried the relevant instructions on the bike with me.
>I'm really happy with CO2 cartridges, too, notwithstanding the environmental burden. I do recycle them -- or they go into the recycle bin. God knows where they end up now that China is refusing our garbage qua recyclables.
India, with the overage solar cells full of irrecoverable, poisonous cadmium.
> What I hate most right now is the Look Keo Blade pedal on my fast bike. The blade is failing or failed, and the cleat releases with the slightest rotation. I took it out and reinstalled without much change. Next pedals will have a standard spring. I don't like the standard aluminum wire bottle cages on my rain bike. I'm sold on wrap-around bottle cages, and in fact, Bontrager makes a cheap CF look-alike cage that is a great value. I need to put longer fender flaps on my son's Roubaix so he doesn't spray me going into work at >30mph. It's like drafting a truck in the rain.
Don't get your fingers in the spokes.
Andre Jute
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