Och, Ted! Your Google skills no doubt are fine. But why seek evidence of 
something that is logically incomplete? "The optimum temperature is a 15% 
drop." Spread that around at all the rides you do and see if people start 
to believe you, to the point that in winter they ride in a tank top to 
compensate for temperatures that are 15% too warm for them to ride 
optimally. Sardonic grin.

Logical inference: someone read an article (possibly Jan's) on the testing 
of tire pressure and rolling resistance, and due to poor grasp of logic and 
reason remembered that concept in relation only to the pressures they ride, 
which then came out via inept communication skills as a truncated "15% drop 
is optimum", and spread that around club rides until it was heard round the 
world. We see that kind of ineptitude all the time in "science." Pick any 
press article about any experiment and you will see it. Sardonic grin.

People aren't taught to be mindful, use logic and reason, and unless 
individuals seek it out or learn it on their own, they unwittingly fall for 
all sorts of fallacies of logic and pass them on as intelligent thought. We 
have our education system to thank for that.

Clearly, I need a ride. I'm off to make sure my tires are 15% less 
inflated. Grin.

With abandon,
Patrick

On Monday, April 7, 2014 8:25:55 PM UTC-6, ted wrote:
>
> I believe I have done that before, and I did just now. I may be 
> incompetent but I didn't find test results documenting 15% tire drop as an 
> optimum.

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