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| Do you think skates have gearing? |
| Yes |
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16% |
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| No |
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33% |
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| Well, that depends :) |
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8% |
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| Stop it and go skating! |
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41% |
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Rick
Joined: 25 Feb 2004
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 Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:49 am Subject: |
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Oh dear, I have tried very hard to stay off this topis as it is rather nerdy but I have just been weakened enough to give in.
Walking gears? I'm 95% with Mike on this one. (Makes a change  )
It's not the same as skating for sure. There is a "low gear effect" of moving uphill using smaller steps but this is not really different gears just putting less effort into each stride allows heart to not max out so the blood gets round and supplies oxygen to the muscles and removes heat build up and lactic acid. It's more akin to driving a car a lower speed in the same gear. It's more fuel efficient but it's still the same gear. There are some changes in leverage when walking on the soles and going uphill on the toes which could be considered as gearing in basic mechnical terms so in that sense you could say you have different gears but the effect is minimal. Muscles are used differently when going up and down too. Compression and extension are reversed in some muscles for similar motions. This is not selecting different gears to me. To use the car analogy again, it is the difference between using the throttle or the brake.
BTW, I voted Stop it and go skating. I can't change my vote but in answer to the question at the top of the thread, "Do you think skates have gearing?" the pedantic answer is clearly, "No. Skates themselves do not have gearing as in themselves, they have no gears." However, the action of skating does have gearing. I hope that satisfies all parties with regard to skates, skating and gears. If not then well, quite frankly I don't give a **** Now unless you are preparing a paper on it to pass a course, shut up and skate |
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KarineM
Joined: 27 Sep 2005
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Location: Paris (No longer Lille)
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Rick
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| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 11:35 am Subject: |
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| Part 6 and he uses it as a similie for cadence not a direct correspondance |
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