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| 446.1 | WARNING; Serious reply from Reg follows... | MENTOR::REG | | Thu Aug 27 1987 18:11 | 20 |
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DON'T DO IT ! The amount of air that a baggie wrapped bike will
pick up at ~50 - ~60 MPH on the highway is:-
<lengthy sophisticated calculation would go here if I could do the math>
Which is clearly too damned much (an' its alot more if you get
gusts and side winds) for wheels, roof rack, nerves, etc to suffer.
For a tandem it would be twice as much, for a contrapunt figure
1.n times, where n is greater that a little bit. Anyway, don't
go putting a sail on the top of your car.
Hey, I havn't been that quiet; I voiced an opinion only the
other day, (no reply to it yet from whoever it was that believed the
clown at NEAR who said that that women could sit on their ovaries.
Did you believe that ?)
Reg
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| 446.2 | Shirley's Custom Bags | EUCLID::PAULHUS | Chris @ MLO 8-3/T13 dtn 223-6871 | Mon Aug 31 1987 12:58 | 11 |
| DO IT! I had Shirley Drury of Shirley's Custom Bags in Coventry,
RI make up a cover for the Avatar. It is super protection for the
times when it rides in a roof-top rack. The first try at using
it was a near disaster, with much flapping and moving around of
the cover. An hour or so of fabricating custom bungge cords to
keep everything TIGHT resulted in a perfect set-up! No moisture
on leather parts, no chaffing, just the bottoms of the wheels get
wet!
Shirley's Custom Bags (401) 822-1380
47 Larch Dr.
Coventry, RI 02816 - tell her Chris sent you.
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| 446.3 | I hope he didn't actually *DO* this.... | MENTOR::REG | | Mon Aug 31 1987 14:11 | 14 |
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re .1 Sorry, that should have been GEAR, not NEAR.
re .0 I thought you had all sealed/shielded mechanisms that could
take a little damp ? Surely they painted the thing with something that
can take some rain ? Shower cap(s) (regular ones that your
wife and you use in the shower) would keep the saddle(s) from getting
drenched. Chains can take it. If you have a bike that can take
a little rain its just not worth the sail effect on top of your
car. If the bike can't take a little rain then its especially not
worth putting a sail on top of the car for.
Reg
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| 446.4 | Try it You'll LIKE it!! | HPSVAX::MILLER | I Heart My Picture of a Dog | Thu Sep 03 1987 20:45 | 16 |
| Opus is watertight, all right, but in a driving rain at 55? I wouldn't
trust any sealed anything.
Besides, it HURTS to know I have an expensive machine up there getting
all wet.
Interesting dichotomy, you and Chris present. One exclaims the sail
will take my huge luxury sedan off road, and the other wants me
to DO IT! (Chris, you trying to get me off the road, is that the
idea? ;^)
I think I'll call Shirley and price the job....could be the idea
is just another expensive dream.
Sitting on ovaries near the gear? Wot he say???
=-=-=-=-=-=-=gary-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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| 446.5 | Money sinks and Nerdie accessories | MENTOR::REG | I think I may have AEIFS | Fri Sep 04 1987 12:23 | 31 |
| "Dichotomy", I wonder if that's the operation the doctor had
in mind for whoever_it_was so that she could sit on her,....oh,
never mind.
OK, I admit to not having done it. I was intuiting again about
the sail effect and strain on the roof rack. What I have done for the
last few years is to put four bikes on top of the car and take the
200 mile drive up to Vermont. I havn't kept stats on how hard it
has rained how many times out of x. I do know that it has rained
hard on several occasions and I havn't had any unusual amounts of
water in any bearings on any of the bikes as a result. My Vitus
framed bike does not have "sealed" bearings, just decent quality
European components, my wife's Peugeot is similarly simple and it
is a couple of notches down the price range. My ~30 year old fixed
gear bike with the Reynolds frame just has top quality 30 year old
European components on it, non sealed, etc., again *NO PROBLEM*.
The ATB is excused, it is not European, its been riden through the
brook, off the end of the dock, etc., its has "sealed" (read poorly
shielded) bearings, etc.
I think this idea is just senseless overkill with some stability risks,
I'll also admit some bias against it, appearance wise:-
"Its just too nerdie for words"
I assume you'd get some vile colour and have the thing monogrammed ?
Reg
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