{"id":12962,"date":"2013-01-14T03:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12962"},"modified":"2013-01-14T03:00:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T08:00:18","slug":"crank-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12962","title":{"rendered":"Crank Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com\/2013\/01\/bad-physics-bad-investment.html\">Bad Physics, Bad Investment<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He incorrectly claims that a cyclist can get more torque by having a crank arm that&#8217;s &#8220;longer&#8221; but bends back towards the center, keeping the pedals the same distance away from the axis as a traditional straight crank. Levers don&#8217;t work like that. It doesn&#8217;t matter what shape the lever arm is, it only matters how far away the pedal is from the center of rotation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good to note that the Kickstarter attempt failed miserably, not so good that there&#8217;s a smaller-scale attempt elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad Physics, Bad Investment He incorrectly claims that a cyclist can get more torque by having a crank arm that&#8217;s &#8220;longer&#8221; but bends back towards the center, keeping the pedals the same distance away from the axis as a traditional &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12962\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,39,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-physics","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}