If it's the front wheel, no great shakes, but putting the rear tyre on the wrong way is much more irritating. Many times have I been stood with the wheel in my hands, like a big steering wheel, and the tyre on loosely, doing the 'rotating the wheel, with a puzzled expression on the face' thing.
There is no spoon.
But they are most important in making sure that water is a liquid ( if it was completely pure water, it would be right on the transition from solid to liquid though ) at standard temperatures and pressures.
Nah. Hydrogen bonding, innit.
What other mechanisms do you propose? And to be clear, "road" is dry asphalt/cement.
Many a true word spoken in jest. I've had riders with the cams on the 'drop' side, they've come a cropper and avoided breaking the drive train, only to smash the cams. And I've also had people with the cams facing lever forward, which is great when the catch on something, and they ride with an open QR cam. By passing the lawyers lips, is difficult, but not impossible to achieve, and riding with a missing wheel, is tricky.
Which is the third type of vdW. Given it's a dipole-dipole interaction.
