[Gllug] Geforce2

[Tushar Joshi]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 05:34:53PM +0000, David Damerell wrote:
> On Wednesday, 23 Jan 2002, Tushar Joshi wrote:
> >How exactly is a gearbox better than an automatic!? Apart from cramp in the
> >left foot when changing from 1st to 2nd 300 times a second? 8o)
> 
> Automatic gearing for bicycles has never caught on, because there's a
> certain increase in friction; for a given speed there's more than one
> gear you might want to use depending on whether you're accelerating
> hard, cruising, planning to increase speed slowly, or whatever; and
> gear changes cause unpredictable fluctuations in the drive power.
> 
> I believe that motor cars suffer from all these issues too, but to a
> lesser degree, which is what makes automatics a feasible alternative.

feasible? or infeasible? But on automatics you can still force it to use
gears 1,2 and on some 3 and 4, you just don't need to use a clutch. Just
move the gear forward and backwards instead of in weird left right motions
:) I just feel that the difference between automatics/manuals is like linux
and windows in some cases.

Tushar


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