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- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!rel
- From: rel@waikato.ac.nz
- Newsgroups: rec.running
- Subject: Re: Mileage meters
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.152328.12412@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 24 Nov 92 15:23:28 +1300
- References: <857@jgaltstl.UUCP> <1eot7eINNmar@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
- Lines: 26
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- In article <1eot7eINNmar@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU>, reidyj@CS.ORST.EDU (Jay Reidy) writes:
- > In article <857@jgaltstl.UUCP> terry@jgaltstl.UUCP (terry linhardt) writes:
- >>Does anyone know where you can get the 'gadget' which is attached
- >>to a bicycle and then used to measure distances? I know they are
- >>often used by race officials to lay out a certified course.
- >>What are they correctly called?
- >>--
- >> Terry Linhardt ...!wupost!jgaltstl!terry
- >> terry%jgaltstl.uucp@wupost.wustl.edu
- > Try college and/or high school track and cross country coaches,
- > running shops that sponsor races, TAC or whoever, the highway
- > patrol, highway department.
- >
- > Also, you can get the bike mileage meter at any bike shop in the
- > world. They have s a certain acccuracy problem though, depending
- > on where on the wheel you put the meter-reader. If you're laying
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- ????: It doesn't matter where on the wheel you put it ALL parts of the
- wheel will pass the forks on the bike once every revolution..
-
- It is the radius or circumference of the wheel + Tyre which will dictate the
- error of measurement.
-
-
- Rob.
-