Theoretical cycling scenario: silly answers welcome

[stoatsngroats]

"The shortest distance between two points is never a straight line."

Hardly never, here’s one example, 96 straight miles, but I take your point 😄

 

[Andy in Germany]

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Hardly never, here’s one example, 96 straight miles, but I take your point 😄

It's going up and down, therefore not straight.

 

[Fnaar]

Are there any large mountains, plamets, etc nearby? The effect of the apparent surface of spaecetime may affect the actual distance travelled.

It's totally flat, in the flattest bit of Holland.

 

[Fnaar]

In situations like this the only question is ‘What would miss Goodbody do?’

She prefers the direct approach, with the occasional hug

 

[Drago]

What if, like my good self, you cycle so fast that the fabric of spacetime is warpedmin your wake? Quite often I arrive home form a long ride just in time to see myself leaving.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

What if, like my good self, you cycle so fast that the fabric of spacetime is warpedmin your wake? Quite often I arrive home form a long ride just in time to see myself leaving.

As you approach the speed of light you get longer. So when your head reaches the end of the 10 miles, your arse is still at the start. That is what you see when you finish, your arse is still getting into gear.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

It's totally flat, in the flattest bit of Holland.

Is it below sea level? And has the little boy put his thingy in the dyke?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

It's totally flat, in the flattest bit of Holland.

Then it’s complete fiction as we know all roads run in straight lines in flat places.

 

[Cycleops]

Is it below sea level? And has the little boy put his thingy in the dyke?

There are no dykes any more, just women in comfortable shoes