Yellow Bike DHBC rider

[Frank.S87]

To the bike rider with a yellow bike in DHBC jersey that i saw today arvo around 5.30 - 6pm along cooks river from homebush to bontany bay tried to talk to u about 5 times but i guess u had ur music up with ur head phones lol then tried to follow u but got cut off @ an intersection o wells was just going to ask u a few questions... just incase if you were wondering why i was following you im not weird or anything, even though it was hard to keep up with u lol
maybe i'll bump in to you again sometimes lol ^^

[mikesbytes]

Welcome to the forum Frank

Do you ride with us on Saturday mornings?

[Frank.S87]

hi thanks, nope i dont ride with you guys on saturday morning as i only purchased my bike 2 weeks ago prior i rode when i was younger like 10-14?.
but yeah wouldnt mind to tag along this saturday if its okai i guess

[mikesbytes]

Yeh, come on down

[weiyun]

But who was the yellow bike rider from our club?

[timyone]

i saw a dulwich rider last week while i was on a driving lesson, i was gonna yell at him but couldnt remember his name, it was near the bay of five dock etc

[Frank.S87]

the yellow rider was lindsay

[lindsay]

I deny ever owning or riding a yellow bike. Yellow is so... yellow.

[Adrian E]

yo mr munks, lay off my mellow yellow
it rides so sweetly when I wear a sombrero
all the lady's say "hello fine fellow"
riding along on my velo mellow yellow

[timyone]

well mines yellow, but its on the cupboard, doubt ill be on it for a bit.

[mikesbytes]

The speed of the rider might of caused a colour shift, similar to the method they use for determining how far away stars are

[weiyun]

The speed of the rider might of caused a colour shift, similar to the method they use for determining how far away stars are

I don't know which direction you'll have to move to make it yellow. A fast stationary spin? It's red or blue as far as I know.

[christian]

The bike would have to be changing colour, as it approaches at speed you get a blue shift so the bike would have to be orange, as the rider goes past and then is moving away you would get a red shift, so the bike would have to be green to appear yellow.

Nobody can actually ride fast enough for this to happen, no matter how fast you think you may be. You would have to be going around 10% of the speed of light, thats 30000 km/s.

That concludes todays science lesson.

[mikesbytes]

Don't let science get in the way of a good story, otherwise Austin Powers couldn't of gone back in time.

[weiyun]

I have a question, Sir... How much muscle power would I need to push my bike to 1% of c?

[williamd]

Timmyone said he saw some Dulwich Hill rider at Five Dock near the bay.

That was probably me.

I was also down at the Cooks River but not on a yellow bike.

[Frank.S87]

do many of you guys ride alone cooks river?...im there about everyday mon - fri usually just go from campsie down to flemington and sat and sundays i usually go down to airport tahts the only bike route i know where i feel same so far anyways lol

hmm was that rider you though lindsay??

[weiyun]

You'll be more comfortable with distant trips when you feel confident with fixing flats.

[mikesbytes]

The Doppler effect would account for Bill's red bike looking yellow

[lindsay]

I ride Cooks River every week day from Marrickville/Tempe to Parramatta & return. Yes it was me & yes my bike is yellow. It's always been yellow & has never colour shifted.

[weiyun]

I ride Cooks River every week day from Marrickville/Tempe to Parramatta & return. Yes it was me & yes my bike is yellow. It's always been yellow & has never colour shifted.

We must ride at the same speed, and always in the same direction.

[simon.sharwood]

There's a chance that the bike appeared yellow because of some localised distortion in the space/time field that caused a doppler effect.
Sadly, this kind of "rift in the space time fabric" has never been observed other than on the set of 'Star Trek', so even though the Cooks River contains some very interesting chemicals I suspect the likelihood of one manifesting there is very low.
On the 'how much power to get my bike to 1% of C' question, Wikipedia's entry for the space shuttle says its engines produce 1.75 meganewtons and the vehicle weighs 109 tonnes for a top speed of 28,000 km/h, which is a tiny fraction of C.
Assuming a bike and ride weighs about 100kgs, I therefore deduce that even if it were strapped to the space shuttle's engines, you'd end up nowhere near 1% of C. And dead, because I have not factored in the weight of a space suit.
Thus endeth the spurious psuedo science lecture.
S.

[mikesbytes]

So it could be something to do with the chemicals in Cooks River