Something to ponder as you pedal along - the isochronous curve

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I'll certainly be careful not to get my balls caught on the tyre
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Hmm clever stuff, never come across that kind of curve before :-bd
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Never heard a name associated with that curve, either - despite growing up in the spirograph era...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirograph

Edit - apparently, we are still in that era...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Spiro ... th=1&psc=1
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Phenomenal use of smoking paraphenlia for the purposes of science

Knew nothing about it so thanks for the link.
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Thanks for that.
Made one with my kids today in what passed for a home education maths/woodwork lesson. Didn’t have the right sort of card so we got to work on some off cuts with a fretsaw and a router :grin:
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That was interesting,thanks for sharing
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