ME 109 wrote:
Definitely on. The brighter the lighter.
Makes sense, but I think you are overlooking the impact on your forward progress that results from shooting all those photons forward. I know they are mass-less, but if there is a whole lot of them.....
Exactly.
I Love Lucy did a show with a similar theme: Lucy was losing about $0.25 on each sale, but figured she'd make it up in volume.
ME 109 wrote:
Definitely on. The brighter the lighter.
Makes sense, but I think you are overlooking the impact on your forward progress that results from shooting all those photons forward. I know they are mass-less, but if there is a whole lot of them.....
Maybe if they shone down you wouldn't need shockers but then you couldn't use them unless you used mirrors but light is smart so that wouldn't work ... BUT, it might work in place of a rear shocker and you could ride in a pool of white light ... so cool, so cool.
"You ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know"
The Grateful Dead
Light must have mass. It is definitely affected by gravity.
Anyone who has driven an old 6 volt VW at night will tell you that the light from the headlights droops onto the road. And if you are travelling at speed (say, on a very, very long downhill stretch) the light actually lands on the road surface after the car has passed. You'd see these two dim yellow pools of light following, desperately trying to keep up, when you checked the mirror.
ps: This thread is taking a turn for the better. I sometimes wonder what innocent visiting lurkers must think.
Charlie
and Brunhilde - 1974 R90/6
Graduate, Wallace and Gromit School of Engineering and Design (Pending)
Airbear wrote:Light must have mass. It is definitely affected by gravity.
Anyone who has driven an old 6 volt VW at night will tell you that the light from the headlights droops onto the road. And if you are travelling at speed (say, on a very, very long downhill stretch) the light actually lands on the road surface after the car has passed. You'd see these two dim yellow pools of light following, desperately trying to keep up, when you checked the mirror.
ps: This thread is taking a turn for the better. I sometimes wonder what innocent visiting lurkers must think.
It's a right bugger when you get away from those little yellow pools ! On an old Yamaha I owned I used to go back for them, poor little things would get all tuckered out trying to keep up and I'd find them all dim and pale beside the road .
"You ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know"
The Grateful Dead
Yes, that is true Sibbo,
Ozzie riding conditions require a very sensitive eye to spot what is lurking in the shadow of the shadow... especially whilst riding our airheads at light speed.
So we are now back full circle to the needs of the opening post...
Have those new spotties caught up with your test ride yet ?
