Apparently ChatGPT hasn’t yet learned the absolute requirement to have Nantucket as one of the rhyming words to harken back to the original and evocative “man from Nantucket”.

OK - longer answer. As FredipusRex points out, the wheels are Reuleaux Triangles. In any orientation the top of the wheels are the same height above the ground. The bike is actually supported on the tops of the wheels by roller bearings and the axles are free to move up and down. So, while in part of the video the…

Surprisingly, not necessary. Watch the video and look at FredipiusRex’s comment. I checked out the video see how they synched them myself only to find out they don’t.

Watch their video. Instead of planetary gears they did exactly what you first suggested. What look like dotted lines above each wheel are actually roller bearings. The bike essentially uses these to ‘sit’ on the wheels while the axles are free to translate vertically. Very clever and probably easier to make that…

So it was serious enough to search his home and they found “various confidential, proprietary materials” but they just took him at face value that he wasn’t going to China?

Thanks. I was 11 in 1973. I remember the missions and Skylab falling but didn’t remember the lift off problems and repairs.

Hopewell Township is only about 10 miles from Grovers Mill, as the tripod walks.

tulleytwo’s Book of Dad Jokes.

The original authors are not the ones who put up a Target parking lot photo. Your ‘they’ is Jalopnik editors, and Jalopnik just blurbed a lazy few paragraphs from a longer Slate article, which itself was cribbed from a podcast and another book (though the author of all three is the same.) Either way, the emphasis is…

Jalopnik writer wrote “cars”. The original Slate article has spaces per household. Lazy.

Please correct this error.

For some reason I don’t think the original authors who talk about finding parking are worried about the Target/Costco/Walmart triumvirate and their customers.

I replied to the original commenter - but am in the grays so nobody looks. To be really accurate - the US number is for cocoa powder while the UK and EU numbers are for total cocoa - powder and butter. The actual comparison, say between US and UK Cadbury bars makes them about equal.

I replied to this once, but it disappeared. Maybe because I linked a BBC article?

I’m not going to argue taste - but the 10% number for the US is misleading. In the US it’s 10% cocoa powder. In the EU the 30% number is total cocoa - powder and butter. There’s little difference in the total cocoa content between the US and Britain.

CUV’s are not the end of the world, but, in all honesty, if there were more decent wagons around there would be absolutely no use for them.

Read past the headline and you’ll see

Irrespective of the EV/ICE debate can anyone imagine how little the authorities (or anyone) would want to be dealing with policing exactly which vehicles get to hop on the interstate before the hurricane hits?  That’s exactly what we need our emergency responders taking the time to do - pulling over every Chevy Bolt…

I guess “Falling gas prices lead ICE cars to cost 3% less to run than EVs” might not have gotten the same response, huh?

I didn’t see it either with my BS or PhD. And that was decades ago. Why? Because I am a white guy. It doesn’t happen to us. To us, it’s easy for everything to look fine.