How many individual bits in a bike?

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ianrauk

Tattooed Beat Messiah
Location
Rides Ti2
Here you go..... get counting :thumbsup:

bike-breakdown.jpg


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

Squire
Location
Ireland
Do we count to an atomic or sub-atomic level?
 

srw

It's a bit more complicated than that...
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

Guru
Location
Suffolk
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.
 
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