BMX question brings up unicycling

Here's a question that came up in the tech question section of online
BMX Plus Magazine ('look here'
(http://www.bmxplusmag.com/bmxperts.asp)).


Q. what is the most important part on your bike????
- 12/1/2003 10:30:17 AM

A. Your front wheel. Otherwise it would be a Unicycle and then your
question would be meaningless.


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U-Turn wrote:
*A. Your front wheel. Otherwise it would be a Unicycle and then your
question would be meaningless. *


i'm trying to figure out if the answerer was trying to diss unicycling
or if he/she truly 'understands'?



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GILD wrote:
*

i'm trying to figure out if the answerer was trying to diss unicycling
or if he/she truly 'understands'?
*
I think he was just being clever... if you look at the rest of the Q and
A's you'll see the tone.


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Calm down, he's exactly correct in the answer he gives.

What is the most important part of your *******BIKE******?

A bike can only be a BIcycle (except if the term is stretched through
laziness or for humorous effect).

The bicycle is only one sub species of the cycle.

The bicycle is defined by its second wheel, or, to be precise, by having
exactly 2 wheels, unlike a unicycle, tricycle, quadricycle, pentacycle,
hexacycle heptacycle, octacycle, nonocycle, decacycle, etc.

The important wheel is the DRIVEN one. Without a driven wheel, the
bicycle would not work. Therefore, the front wheel is the optional one.
Remove the front wheel, and the BIcycyle becomes a sort of unicycle.
Therefore the answer is correct.

Remove the seat, or handlebars, or one pedal, or one brake, and it
remains a bicycle. Remove the front wheel and it is no longer a
bicycle.

Tcha! Young people of today...

;0)


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Mikefule wrote:
*The important wheel is the DRIVEN one.*
Sounds like SOMETHING's being driven... are your demons at it again,
Mike?



*Tcha! Young people of today...*
Sorry, I won't let it happen again....


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Haha thats Awesome


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Mikefule wrote:
*Remove the front wheel, and the BIcycyle becomes a sort of unicycle.
Therefore the answer is correct.*
If that answer is correct, that means most of the discussions on this
forum are about meaningless stuff (such as what kind of tire to buy)...


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johnfoss wrote:
*If that answer is correct, that means most of the discussions on this
forum are about meaningless stuff (such as what kind of tire to
buy)... *


As I say to a fencing opponent after I've made an unsuccessful lunge,
"You've missed my point."

Unicycling is every bit as meaningful/less as bicycling. A question
about components of bicycles becomes meaningless if its answer entails
that the bicycle is no longer a bicycle. You might as well ask, which
is the loudest musical instrument when it isn't being played. That
doesn't make music meaningless.


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logic haha


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On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:03:05 -0600, Mikefule
wrote:

What is the most important part of your *******BIKE******?

The important wheel is the DRIVEN one.

So what is it? The front wheel or the driven wheel?

Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict
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