Passage #419: 6 September 2017
Mechanical Advantage
The bicycle is a wonderful machine, we think you'll agree, composed of so many smaller, simpler machines: levers; pulleys; screws; wheels! All working together, they offer us so many advantages in exploring the city, allowing us to ascend the hills, round the bends and traverse the furrows with great efficiency (or inefficiency, if we so desire). Surely, we should make the most of these advantages while we are able. And so we shall, tonight.