Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Nov 22, 2009, 2:31 pm
I came across an unsurprising insight into the role that engineering plays in the cycling world hour record. Here's a quote from a recent Science News mag piece titled "Breaking The Speed Limit", ...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Nov 19, 2009, 3:01 am
So many different feats have been achieved by humans with bicycles over the years. Some of them (a handful actually), recognized by the Guinness Book Of World Records, have been collected by me today ...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Nov 17, 2009, 3:50 pm
I appreciate projects that are simple, can actually be made using novel technologies and which really work well for the task at hand. Among them are those that try and see if pedal power can be applie...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Nov 15, 2009, 11:13 pm
The humble bicycle reflector works on the principle of corner cube retro-reflection. Incident light bounces off the orthogonally placed, reflective plastic surfaces and emerges in the opposite directi...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Nov 10, 2009, 7:29 pm
Hi folks. Here's little more background behind what was shown in Part I. Norbert Ladenburger hails from Schwäbisch Gmünd, a little town near Stuttgart at the northern foot of the Swabian Jura Mo...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Nov 9, 2009, 9:32 pm
Here's a toast to cheap. Rumor has it that this German person named 'Norbert' made this rig under 50 euros (ha!). Not only did he make all the servomotor associated shifting mechanism him...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Nov 5, 2009, 1:01 am
The Tour de France (TDF) is the marquee cycling event on the calender for any top international pro cyclist as well as their squads. Everyone wants to do well here because its arguably the biggest and...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Nov 3, 2009, 6:00 pm
Hey everyone. So a little about me again. I'm a mechanical engineer currently dabbling in electro-optics full-time after quitting my previous job in the petroleum industry. On the side, I survive ...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Oct 31, 2009, 12:35 am
Cattaraugus, NY For many here in the northeast of the U.S, crusty golden leaves have begun to fall, signaling the time of the year when we must take give our a nuts a break off the bicycle saddle and...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Oct 29, 2009, 12:27 pm
Think back to a great speech, an interesting musical composition or an experience of going through a historical event live and chances are, you probably heard a good portion of them on the radio. Rid...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Oct 27, 2009, 10:08 am
Attention Cycling Noob, Just where do you think you're going?? Are you wearing underwear, knickers, lingerie and ofter hardware under your cycling shorts?? If yes, just imagine someone plugged ou...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Oct 23, 2009, 11:00 pm
FOR PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS OF STUPIDITY, SEE : Saturday Stupidity I Saturday Stupidity II Saturday Stupidity III Saturday Stupidity IV Saturday Stupidity V Saturday Stupidity VI * * *
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Oct 22, 2009, 10:48 am
Like the past 100 years, even today cycling products come and go. And with them, so do their marketing sound bytes... Any intelligent cyclist must carefully inspect marketing data handed to him, and ...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Oct 19, 2009, 8:18 am
Our protagonist, the author of a blog called "Manley Man", had recently participated in Levi Leipheimer's GrandFondo ride in California. Among the highlights of this ride are really steep descents...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Oct 15, 2009, 12:02 am
The endo, short for end-over or end-over-end, is a type of pitch over crash where the cyclist goes over the handlebars, the weight offset of which causes an inertial moment to act about the front whee...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Oct 12, 2009, 11:00 pm
Components of Pedal Force Simulator Tom Compton, the personality behind AnalyticCycling.com, believes trainers do a shabby job of simulating outdoor riding conditions. There's that something miss...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Oct 7, 2009, 11:49 pm
Apologetic Design Technologies Gentle Avenue, Koala Bear 73232 Dear Customer, Congratulations. You've made the right decision in purchasing our newly designed bike saddle, the AssBLEND®. We at...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Oct 4, 2009, 11:00 pm
In the midst of our world of possibilities for data analysis in cycling performance, I was wondering if we could consider extending our scope a bit to other things. As we speak, more models of GPS sy...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Oct 2, 2009, 12:25 am
If you read descriptions of Shimano's products, you'll often come across the words "cold forged aluminum", mentioned with great pride. Forging is a metal shaping process in which a malleable ...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Sep 29, 2009, 12:34 am
The human instinct to fear when something on four legs chases you down on a pathway is natural. The speed, ferocity and the sound of animal paws smacking the ground as it tries to catch up behind us s...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Sep 26, 2009, 12:57 am
Laugh the weekend away for me, will ya?.... By the way, Cozy Beehive has officially chosen the following piece as its soundtrack. Let's apply it to bicycles. I'm already dancing. Can you keep...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Sep 23, 2009, 11:01 pm
Distance : 105 miles (170km) Total Vertical Climbing : 10,000 feet+ (3050 m) Weather : 56 Deg F, Foggy With Rain (13 deg C) Ride Time : 8.5 Hours In between these days thinking about bicycle dynamics...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Sep 22, 2009, 1:05 am
"Trail can be found by supporting the bike on a flat surface in an upright position for measuring purposes. A centerline is run down through the head tube until it hits the flat surface. A vertical li...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Sep 17, 2009, 11:14 pm
Continued from Part 2. Hello bike nerds! Before you engage yourself in another installment in my series on bicycle stability, have a look at this clip from The Daily Planet shown on Discovery Channel...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Sep 13, 2009, 11:01 pm
Continued from Part 1. Here, we'll study some fundamental concepts associated with bicycle motion, before we step into play mode. This is necessary for understanding what is to follow in later pa...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Sep 9, 2009, 10:40 am
Bicycle motion is more complex than you think, perhaps more than that of an automobile. When someone, such as a frame builder Mr. X, Y or Z, tells you that one or two design parameters alone influence...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Sep 7, 2009, 2:39 am
Anthropology of sport is an emerging research area for Dr. Brian Joseph Gilley of the University of Vermont. His research narrows in on the ways body culture in professional road cycling articulates w...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Sep 1, 2009, 11:12 pm
One of the reasons we have computers and can make it do wonderful things for us is largely because of one man. Alan Turing. Turing is the founder of the ideas behind the modern computer and artificia...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Aug 30, 2009, 11:00 pm
That bicycle companies will go to odd lengths to market their products is clear when you pick up their catalogs and flip through their pages. If you manage not to drool all over yourself and drown in ...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Aug 27, 2009, 11:01 pm
This blog brings you new perspectives and interesting ideas in cycling, without any charge. You may pay me back through your continued interest. Some months back while visiting a good friend of mine,...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Aug 24, 2009, 11:01 pm
The concept of ride comfort varies from person to person. If one were to ask 10 different people about a particular bike's ride characteristics, its likely they'll say 10 different things. Th...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Aug 21, 2009, 10:04 am
Jody Leonard after a car-bicycle collision Good afternoon. Recently, a reader of my blog sent me this moving account of how he came to see the realities of a bicycle collision with an automobile. Le...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Aug 18, 2009, 11:26 am
Sometimes, peculiar things happen to us. And we like to report it. Today's peculiar story to you is a minor tragedy to me. And there's an interesting causality to it, like all events in the wo...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Aug 16, 2009, 2:12 pm
Ever since the start of this month, Lynskey Performance Bicycles based in Chattanooga, TN has been quietly uploading videos of their manufacturing processes to the internet. As you know, Lynskey is th...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Aug 13, 2009, 10:49 am
So your riding buddies trash talked you into riding some monstrous hills out somewhere in the exterior of civilization. But you've felt better on other occasions and boy oh boy, today is just not ...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Aug 9, 2009, 11:00 pm
An internal bicycle hub is an intricate planetary gear mechanism and is made of dozens of small parts. See, long before the derailleur became a staple in racing bikes in the 20th century, internal hub...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Jul 31, 2009, 1:14 pm

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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Jul 28, 2009, 5:08 pm
Over the past couple of years, I have been sort of a silent surveyor of the emotions people have for Lance Armstrong. You need not go to Austin, Texas for this privilege. Its right here on the interne...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Jul 26, 2009, 12:16 am
Here are some few items of interest you may not have known about our era's champion of pro cycling, that kid from Pinto named Alberto Contador. I gleaned them from my range of readings. I'm ve...
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Ron G. posted an article on Cozy Beehive Bicycle Blog - Jul 22, 2009, 11:24 am
Keeping in with our theme of spills, crashes, injuries and utter turmoil, it has always struck me as to what people do with their destroyed carbon fiber bikes after a crash. Do they trash it in the du...
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