Re: Patching TPU innertube

On 1/1/2025 6:30 PM, Radey Shouman wrote:

Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> writes:
 

On 12/31/2024 6:25 AM, Catrike Rider wrote:

On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 17:54:03 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
wrote:
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I read Frankie's violins. If I remember the test correct it was
carried out in a hotel room and the test players got to play each
instrument for something like 1 minute.

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Perhaps you should read more than one article before wading into a
discussion you know nothing about.

 I have no opinion on whether violin players can tell the difference
between Strads and modern violins.  It's not important to my point,
which is that *someone* can tell the difference, even if it requires an
electron microscope.  That is all that is required to explain the
difference in price.  Even if the preference is completely unrelated to
the sound actually produced by the violins.
 A preference for old violins based completely on history and emotion may
be a problem for you, but it makes perfect sense to economists.  The
multi-million dollar price seems to be the biggest issue for you; I'm
not sure why.

It's not an issue for me, and I didn't say it was. I'll never attempt to buy a Strad, and I'll never expect to get millions if I sell one of my fiddles.
But since this is Usenet, so you can read back to see the flow of the thread. We got into this kerfuffle from Roger's statement that "feel" of a tire can be important, apart from rolling resistance.
I expressed some skepticism, saying "Given what I've read about violins (Stradivarius can't be told from modern ones in blind hearing tests) and wines (cheap wines really light up pleasure centers in the brain if tasters are told the wine is expensive), I'm somewhat skeptical of a lot of "feel" judgements regarding bike tires - and bikes."
Then we were off to the races, with a surprising number of experts telling us all about violins.
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- Frank Krygowski