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StephenC
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What are frame plugs for? Are they just aesthetic? I got some on the bike I recently bought and am wondering if they should be coming off. Certainly the holes in the frame never offended me so, unless they have some actual function, they just add weight!
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« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2014, 08:25:41 AM » |
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They reduce the air turbulence!
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« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2014, 08:39:05 AM » |
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Although they add to the bike's net weight, they can be fine tuned to dampen harmonic resonance. This is a bonus for those shallow enough to install them for their bling factor.....such as myself.  |
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« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2014, 08:48:56 AM » |
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Is that why red bikes go faster?
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« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2014, 09:47:29 AM » |
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Is that why red bikes go faster?
Nope. That is merely an aspirational delusion resulting from a sinusoidal phase-shifted illusion suffered by red bike owners. On the other hand, black bikes always lead.  |
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« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2014, 10:08:19 AM » |
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Nope. That is merely an aspirational delusion resulting from a sinusoidal phase-shifted illusion suffered by red bike owners. On the other hand, black bikes always lead. Unfortunately, this is an affliction that black bike owners suffer from. They unknowingly project their delusion onto red bike owners. The incontrovertible truth is revealed by racing Ducatis, as all can see that the fastest Ducatis are red.  |
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« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2014, 11:58:56 AM » |
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What have I started!!
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« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2014, 12:02:18 PM » |
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What have I started!!
Oh, some of the usual meaningless banter.  IMHO, frame plugs are purely an aesthetic mod. Haven't heard of a convincing technical reason to use them. |
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« Reply #8 on: March 28, 2014, 12:03:37 PM » |
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All your color are belong to us. Someone set us up the frame plug. Yellow are teh faster.
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« Reply #9 on: March 28, 2014, 02:52:02 PM » |
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Remember if you add all the colors together they make black ....ergo....... black is fastest a combination off all colors  |
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« Reply #10 on: March 28, 2014, 03:51:07 PM » |
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What are frame plugs for? Are they just aesthetic? I got some on the bike I recently bought and am wondering if they should be coming off. Certainly the holes in the frame never offended me so, unless they have some actual function, they just add weight!
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« Reply #11 on: March 28, 2014, 09:19:43 PM » |
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i once knew a lady who liked plugs
she was racey
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« Reply #12 on: March 29, 2014, 08:11:24 AM » |
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« Reply #13 on: March 29, 2014, 11:48:55 AM » |
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Now I'm confused! What you are all trying to say is that my red and black bike is the fastest possible combination and is only being held back by the frame plugs that bobspapa wants me to take off so he can give them to his lady friend?
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