Page title[edit source]
Should it be titled "The Bike Snow Plow"? I'm still in the process of converting from the original HTML. More photos will be added soon.
- Hi Dave! When I first saw it, I thought it was a farming plow, so I would prefer "Bike snow plow" (no caps except the first word, without "the") as the page title. We can move it, if necessary, when we reach consensus. I'm hoping that this somehow also spawns discussion of a human powered farming plow, whether strictly a "bike plow" or not... But clearly the bike snow plow is a beneficial technology, and I'm very glad to have it in its own right. By the way, I'm going to make a quick edit to your main article to add a category or two... --CurtB 12:06, 10 January 2007 (PST)
- Ooops! It is a reflex action on my part to capitalize Bike Snow Plow. Feel free to change the title to conform to the style guidelines. Also, the original pages flow somewhat chronologically, whereas here I was planning on condensing things and eliminating some of the long discussion about things that turned out to not work very well. -- Dave
- No problem with the name. We're constantly trying to get more consistent, but there are many that are non-compliant right now. There's no name change other than "move", so we'll just move it again when we get a chance. By the way, when you do a move, a "redirect" page is created by default, so the old name continues to work. We'll delete that at some point. I think your compressed / restructured approach is best. Great work! You can sign your name with timestamp (useful when looking back at comments) by entering 4 ~'s in a row (3 ~'s provides user name without timestamp). The 2nd-from-right tool button above the edit window will insert them also. --CurtB 13:32, 10 January 2007 (PST)
- Ooops! It is a reflex action on my part to capitalize Bike Snow Plow. Feel free to change the title to conform to the style guidelines. Also, the original pages flow somewhat chronologically, whereas here I was planning on condensing things and eliminating some of the long discussion about things that turned out to not work very well. -- Dave
Welcome and Math Markup[edit source]
Hi Dave, Welcome to Appropedia, and thank you for your very cool addition. I am a bike riding engineering teacher, but luckily I currently have no need for a snow plow. I added some math markup to your Plow physics section. Mediawiki uses the math tags to incite a LaTeX markup language for mathematical formula rendering. Here is some more information on the markup. Thanks and welcome, --Lonny 01:23, 13 January 2007 (PST)
- Thanks for the help with the equation formatting. I had a chance to do some more detailed observation of the plow in action (by the way, it is really hard to ride straight while looking backwards at the plow!) and decided the compression of the snow and blade flow make for a rather inelastic collision. The obvious choice is to solve for the case of just carrying the snow along. I have updated the physics section. Feel free to add any thoughts on the dynamics. I'd like to do some field testing to measure the force on the hitch for various snow conditions. That will certainly help shed some light on the various factors. --Dave-Peterson 08:09, 17 January 2007 (PST)
- Dave, I look forward to hearing how the testing goes. I moved your page to Bike snow plow (lowercase) to match with our naming convention (not many pages actually match the convention, but we are working on it). Thank you for your contributions, --Lonny 19:04, 22 January 2007 (PST)
As a completely separate tip for you - you do know that you can get studded tires for your bike right? This helps traction in those compacted conditions quite a lot. --Martin