http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: humour - Recent Posts en Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:26:56 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14884#post-189615 Thu, 28 May 2015 21:09:55 +0000 paddyirish 189615@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/sport/women-secretly-find-cycling-mamils-sexy/">Takes all types</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9064#post-93404 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:04:07 +0000 Uberuce 93404@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I wonder if there's something scientifically measurable about wingpig and I. I wore a long sleeve T-shirt this morning over my other T-shirt and was perfectly cosy from about 500m onwards. I believe Mr W. Pig has much the same clothing requirements, so I can only conclude that we're cursed/blessed with horribly inefficient muscle cells. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9064#post-93366 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:19:19 +0000 ARobComp 93366@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I enjoyed reading this this morning.</p> <p>From the XKCD: What If? series : <a href="http://what-if.xkcd.com/">http://what-if.xkcd.com/</a></p> <p>Question:<br /> I bike to class sometimes. It's annoying biking in the wintertime, because it's so cold. How fast would I have to bike for my skin to warm up the way a spacecraft heats up during reentry?<br /> —David Nai</p> <p>Answer:<br /> Reentering spacecraft heat up because they’re compressing the air in front of them (not, as is commonly believed, because of air friction).</p> <p>According to this calculator, to increase the temperature of the air layer in front of your body by twenty degrees Celsius (enough to go from freezing to room temperature), you would need to be biking at 200 m/s.</p> <p>The fastest human-powered vehicles at sea levels are recumbent bicycles enclosed in streamlined aerodynamic shells. These vehicles have an upper speed limit near 40 m/s. This is the speed at which the human can just barely produce enough thrust to balance the drag force from the air.</p> <p>Since drag increases with the square of the speed, this limit would be pretty hard to push any further. Biking at 200 m/s would require at least 25 times the power output needed to go 40 m/s.</p> <p>At those speeds, you don’t really have to worry about the heating from the air—a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that if your body were doing that much work, your core temperature would reach fatal levels in a matter of seconds. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3050#post-32308 Sat, 28 May 2011 09:33:25 +0000 gembo 32308@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>quite a bit of swearing, slightly detracts from the satire?</p> <p>I liked the other finding too</p> <p>The study also found that 78 per cent of accidents are done deliberately, by people who want to be annoying. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3050#post-32233 Fri, 27 May 2011 10:38:18 +0000 kaputnik 32233@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/getting-angry-at-traffic-jams-makes-them-go-away-201105253865/"> From the Daily Mash</a></p> <p><strong>Forewarning of a couple of swears in there. </strong></p> <p>(But it's funny. And true) </p>