Like most nights I popped into Ata yesterday. Husam and I were talking and he mentions that he's using a 'heat gun' in his bike fittings now. Husam is a progressive guy and I guess he observed his car mechanic using a 'heat gun' to index his car's engine performance, or some stuff like that, and thought he could incorporate some of the same principles into his bike fitting process.
So what is a heat gun? It's this....
...a laser gun that measures heat from anything you point it at. Just point the laser beam at whatever you want and it'll tell you how HOT it is....like this Chianti
or Peter Sullivan....
...or her.
...or on the legs of a cyclist during a bike fit for use as an augmenting index to know how warmed up they are. It's instant and accurate. This thing will even tell you the interior temp of hips and knees. Impressive stuff.
You can't learn things like this in books. It comes from innate intelligence and a pioneering acumen. I suspect we'll see this method copied in the future by some genius with a PhD and a book to their name but remember where you saw it first.
Regarding heat...
Here's a cool quote related to progression...borrowed from D.SL
“Impossible
is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to
live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have
to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is
not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is
temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
It's actually an infra red (IR) thermometer. Their intended use is in industrial applications to measure heat in areas that would be hard to monitor with a thermocouple. They are used pretty extensively in the food processing industry, chemical processing industry, and HVAC applications.
ReplyDeleteYeah okay Z...makes sense.
ReplyDeleteand heat seeking missiles
ReplyDeleteGotcha on that A. Thx.
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