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Bredonborough.
Town & Country I…
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Is it Spring yet? I…
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Blossoming is, in some cases, a month earlier than customary to the time of year.
A morning of stuff, e-flurrying & collecting a well-worn car with new radio/CD player from Bredonborough Garage. The bright idea that protects car radios from being stolen, a safety code that locks the system if the electrical supply cuts off, has resulted in rendering mine completely useless.
From an informed e-correspondent…
Basically purevolume.com allows fans to upload their music and make it freely available for download if they chose. Of course, despite the warning about copyright infringement, they also allow users to upload music that belongs to other people and make that available for downloading as well. That way the fans feel all warm, fuzzy and evangelical, the site in question has its hit rate go up and thus its advertising revenue and, guess what...the musician gets screwed.
Mucho practising…
… on the Tokai Les Paul.
More e-flurrying & this from a Crafty Pal…
In your entry of February 23, 2007 you wrote:
"Something like, when we are riding a bicycle, we pay attention to pushing down on the pedal. We do not put our concern into directing the foot to rise afterwards – the returning foot seems to take care of itself. The analogy is not exact: in cycling, we put effort into the down-pedal; and the returning pedal, driven by the other foot pushing down, lifts the first foot. But the sense of return is very close. (Alexander himself learnt to cycle by watching cyclists, then mounted a bicycle for the first time & rode away!)."
The analogy above is appropriate for the majority of the people who learn how to ride a bicycle, those who ride without either toe clips or clipless pedals, but it is not particularly apt for more advanced bicyclists who have discovered that there is additional power to be had by intentionally pulling on the pedal during the upstroke while pedaling. It has been common for bicyclists to be urged to envision "pedalling circles but a more recent development is to "pedal triangles" where each pedal stroke has three distinct parts: downstroke, "flat" and upstroke. It is possible to use a power meter that can actually measure the power output created during the entire pedal stroke so apparently these approaches have been measured to be more efficient and yield greater power output than the classic pedaling motion you described. But I don’t know this for certain, since this occurs in the domain of the bicycle racer (professional or amateur), and I am not a racer.
What is particularly difficult with the pedalling approaches described above is the division of attention required to note what both the left and right legs are doing at the same time (it is quite possible, indeed likely, that one leg is more powerful than the other), particularly when pedalling 100 or more times each minute. I am not certain it is possible for me to observe this in real time, but I believe that my body knows when I’m out of whack.
More Town I…
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More practising…
"Necessity is a measure of aim."
