On Fri Dec 6 11:22:25 2024 Zen Cycle wrote:

Yes, tommy, unfortunately you don't seem to understand what
"multiplicative" means.

_this_ is how it works: To get cumulative change from yearly change,
convert the percentage back to decimal, multiply the values, then
convert back to percentage.

Using the above numbers 1.016*1.032*1.021....= 1.119 > 11.9%

And here's a handy little calculator that confirms it: https://smartasset.com/investing/inflation-calculator

2009 to 2016 shows 11.87% (likely since the table above rounded the numbers)

Again, care to tell us where you came up with 25%?

It's likely the same place where you got the idea that "everybody lost
money in the stock market during the Obama presidency".

and the same place where you got the idea that TDR means "time delay reflection"

and the same place where you got fiber optic telecom cables are called
light lines

and the same place where you said a dent popped out of your top tube by riding the bike

and the same place where you got special campagnolo non-stretch shifter cables....

The list goes on, and on, and on....

No wonder no one was wiklling to pay you a working wage. You're going to have a really ugly retirement. You're going to be replaced by someone that knows what they are doing.

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On Thu Dec 5 05:39:48 2024 zen cycle wrote:

On 12/4/2024 6:57 PM, cyclintom wrote:

On Wed Dec 4 18:21:41 2024 Zen Cycle wrote:

On 12/4/2024 6:00 PM, cyclintom wrote:

On Wed Dec 4 16:45:36 2024 Zen Cycle wrote:

On 12/4/2024 2:44 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 12/4/2024 12:47 PM, cyclintom wrote:

On Wed Dec 4 00:05:00 2024 Frank Krygowski wrote:

Bike transmissions: Derailleurs are easy to understand. Internal gear >>>>>>> hubs are more complicated. (When I was teaching, I had our machinist do
a cutaway of a Sturmey-Archer AW hub and mount it on a display stand >>>>>>> near an explanatory poster, so interested students could see what made
it work.)

Rohloff 14 speed gear hubs are an order of magnitude more complicated >>>>>>> than AWs. But this new gizmo makes a Rohloff look like child's play. >>>>>>> It's a true continuously variable transmission, with an infinite number
of gear ratios, that is completely gear-based. No slipping surfaces, and
supposedly minimal friction losses.

Here's the link to the half hour explanation video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWJHI7UHuys
You may want to start at about 14:30 before returning to the beginning
to digest the super-complicated explanation of it's operation. >>>>>>>
No info in the video about prototype weight, efficiency, etc.

So this is something you consider "super complicated" is it? All >>>>>> anyoine should have needed is to see the levers slidding in the slots >>>>>> to grasped the method that was used to both make the tranmission >>>>>> continuously variable and limit the upper and lower ratios. But I >>>>>> suppose you needed a half hour showing gears to grasp the idea.

Yes, Tom, I do consider that mechanism to be super complicated.

Of course, all of us here are familiar with your status as a mechanical >>>>> genius. ... um, one whose cranks fall off his bike, whose handlebars >>>>> slip, whose seatpost slips, whose derailleurs frequently don't work, who
needs special "non-stretch" cables ...

And his latest, can't get a headset to seat.

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Plainly showing that you don't work on your own bike so you don't understand what was said.

You wish

The cups are installed properly

Probably not

but the heasset won't adjust properly probably indicating that the sealed bearings are crooked and not allowing the steering to be adjusted properly.

Yeeaaaaah, because sealed bearing assemblies are prone to being out of
alignment....lol...

The original headset was a caged bearing type that is more flexible to the top and bottom of the head tube being offset slightly. But the sealed bearings are not.

lol...sure, the singular points of contact in a caged ball bearing lend
themselves to being more tolerant of lateral
misalignments....sure...lol. That's one quick way to a 'notch-o-matic'
headset.

This is an education that you will never be able to use

no, that's an education no one should use.

because you don't work on your own bikes and because it makes no sense to you since you don't know how to adjust a headset.

Other than a few instances of needing to re-tighten a headset, I haven't >> had any problems I couldn't figure out.

How does it feel to be as stupid as you are? Is it painful?

Look in the mirror


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"Notchomatic"? >

no, 'notch-o-matic'

Only you couldn't understand why headsets used to be different.

is it something along the lines of your explanation why one-piece
stem/bars were created? because "no one could ever get carbon bars to
stop slipping"?

I especially like your "probably not" based upon Adrews saying that as a faint possibility there could be a bump on the cup holding it misalligned.

yes tommy. In standard english, "probably not" perfectly aligns with the notion of a faint possibility to the contrary.

Is there ABYTHING that you could possibly understand?

I understand that you're completely incompetent. Have you managed to
find a source for those magic campaganolo non-stretch shifter cables yet?

Tell us more about your professional cat 3 racing career as a permanent last place.

lol..."professional cat 3"?....And I'm the one who doesn't understand things....

Now that we are really impressed with you being a "racer" at 65 years of age maybe you can audition with Mike's Bikes racing team

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