The "carpet sprint" thing seems to be pretty much a myth. There have been three riders on the rollers with three different bikes and when we go off them, anywhere from 25 kph up to a high of 43 kph (so far), the bikes stop dead as soon as they hit something that won't spin. The wheels don't have enough inertia to keep spinning and drag the bike away. In fact, no one has even gotten to the floor yet as the wheels stop spinning as soon as they hit the metal rails holding the rollers together. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Garvey" <lazybee45@xxxxxxxxx> To: <python@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:28 AM Subject: [python] Re: Indoor riding Rollers are fun! But i am not nearly smooth enough to use them effectively. Just be careful that you dont' do carpet sprints! HAHAHAHA! (carpet sprints are when a rider on rollers slips off the edge and does a fast burnout into the wall on the carpet!) mark ============================================================ This is the Python Mailinglist at freelists.org Listmaster: Jürgen Mages jmages@xxxxxx To unsubscribe send an empty mail to python-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field. ============================================================