How many individual bits in a bike?

[ianrauk]

Here you go..... get counting

Ok, in the pic above, the component count is 893. The bike is a 1980's Raleigh.
It's by an artist called Todd Mclennan. More of his disassembled objects HERE

 

[tyred]

Do we count to an atomic or sub-atomic level?

 

[Poacher]

Between thirty and thirty-five thousand.













Never less than thirty, and never more than thirty-five thousand.

 

[srw]

Yeah, I was thinking along those lines too. Each shifter has to be good for 50-100 widgets surely?

Edit: probably nearer fifty....
http://techdocs.shimano.com/media/t...EV-ST-5500-CA-1934A_v1_m56577569830728639.pdf

22 numbered bits per shifter, of which 2 are tools and 2 are the whole darn shebang. About one in two numbered bits consists of two actual bits. Probably 50 across both shifters.

I'm sticking to 900 for the whole thing to the nearest 100, because some of my other estimates are probably generous.

 

[MikeG]

Yebbut........

The levers aren't numbered. The body that the levers are attached to isn't numbered, and there are bits sticking out the back of it which aren't numbered. Part 10 consists of at least 5 parts. I'll warrant that your guess of 50 is a serious under-estimate.

 

[MikeG]

Do we count to an atomic or sub-atomic level?

If you can split the atoms off, then they count as separate parts. Please do this very carefully, and a very long way away from me.

 

[ufkacbln]

there is always one left over

FTFY