SPOKEY DOKES!!!

Beeblebrox

lost_in_thought wrote:

sarajoy wrote:

Need to work out whose bike is whose mind you - need people with a sense of humour! Plus it won't be hard to see who's the perpetrator...

Not everyone will have seen your spokeydokey'd bike yet! Seize your opportunity, then claim that you are also a victim of teh phantom spokey-doker...

Or take to the streets...

That'd be a fantastic anonymous 'random act' to do. Imagine, you go into town, lock up and go shopping, only to find on returning to your bike that it has been attacked by bike hippies. It's a lovely idea.

Bassjunkieuk

First off top find.........I think it's just a shame that they *might* not fit on the bladed spokes of my Aksiums..........;-)

I can still hear that un-mistakable pinging noise now, brings back many memories from when I was younger - I think I collected all mine from cereal packets tho! Shame they don't do things like that nowadays, giving away small toys in breakfast cereal?

rolf_f

sarajoy wrote:

Teeheehee just fitted them! 5 to each wheel
!

5 to a wheel? If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing properly! Here is a bike being pushed by mad woman in Haarlem who really knows how to spokey doke properly!

Bassjunkieuk wrote:

First off top find.........I think it's just a shame that they *might* not fit on the bladed spokes of my Aksiums..........;-)

Somebody really needs to make some to fit bladed spokes - preferably in carbon fibre to save weight......

sarajoy

Beeblebrox wrote:

That'd be a fantastic anonymous 'random act' to do. Imagine, you go into town, lock up and go shopping, only to find on returning to your bike that it has been attacked by bike hippies. It's a lovely idea.

It might well be something I do now and again

Only one or two at a time though, enough for people to potentially not notice until later... "What's that noise?...What the.."

whyamihere

sarajoy wrote:

The only make a noise when you're rolling really slowly. As soon as you get much over walking speed, centripetal forces throw them out to the rim and the noise stops.

It's actually the momentum of the beads overcoming the centripetal force, but you're nearly right so I'll let you off.

sarajoy

whyamihere wrote:

sarajoy wrote:

The only make a noise when you're rolling really slowly. As soon as you get much over walking speed, centripetal forces throw them out to the rim and the noise stops.

It's actually the momentum of the beads overcoming the centripetal force, but you're nearly right so I'll let you off.

Oh, I knooowww, I kinda corrected myself after

dirk_van_gently

sarajoy wrote:

Centrifugal and centripetal as basically the same thing - just exact opposites

Few!! glad we cleared that up

always_tyred

Dirk Van Gently wrote:

sarajoy wrote:

Centrifugal and centripetal as basically the same thing - just exact opposites

Few!! glad we cleared that up

The main difference between them is that cetrifugal force doesn't exist, whereas centripetal force does.

laughingboy

Always Tyred wrote:

The main difference between them is that cetrifugal force doesn't exist, whereas centripetal force does.

My non-scientist brain baulked at this, and thought: Oh yeah? Then why the hell is there such a thing as a centrifuge? So I looked it up: in short, it needs renaming.

Cheers all. Now I just need some way of dropping this nugget ("...of course centrifugal force is only a psuedo-force...") casually into conversation to have made it worth my while.

biondino

Could you guys solve gravity while you're at it? It's causing all sorts of problems.

ride_whenever

i couldn't resist:

Beeblebrox

Oi! Reference you fiend!

whyamihere

www.xkcd.com

The force referred to is essentially an imaginary one brought about by the momentum of the object. No matter what Randall (xkcd author) wants to claim, there is no centrifugal force.

always_tyred

biondino wrote:

Could you guys solve gravity while you're at it? It's causing all sorts of problems.

Simple - If you go around the earth fast enough, the centrifugal force will exactly cancel it out.

Chaz.Harding

Always Tyred wrote:

biondino wrote:

Could you guys solve gravity while you're at it? It's causing all sorts of problems.

Simple - If you go around the earth fast enough, the centrifugal force will exactly cancel it out.

(It's what satellites do )

Further you are from the Earth, the slower you need to move!

Specialized Needs

Seeing as this thread has been resurrected from the depths of page 100 or so, I might as well ask SaraJoy whether she has put any spokeydokes on her oh-so-tastefully colour coordinated beer bike?

Agent57

blu3cat wrote:

Is it playing cards on the forks for that retro machine gun sound next?

Star Wars cards for that motorbike sound, surely? I also had bread tags on my brake cables.

lastant

sarajoy wrote:

Nah, our old Physics teacher would tell us off when we said centrifugal!

[CARTOON FROM XKCD WAS HERE]

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