Not as mystical as it looks. Do you recognize this common object?

[yomikoma]

Comments

[cramerica.livejournal.com]

Suggests a powerboat or sumsuch

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Turns out to be lower-tech than that.

[cnoocy]

Is it a bicycle? If so, what is C?

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

Chain?

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Apparently nobody knows the term "crank".

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

I know the term, I'd just never associated it with bikes before. "Crank" normally suggests turning by hand, not by footpedal. And there is a chain there, so I thought I'd got it.

[bookishfellow.livejournal.com]

That was gonna be my guess too. C would likely be chain, but I'm not sure what the I and II stand for.

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

First wheel, second wheel.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

KT got it - F and R for Front and Rear would have been more standard but F had to be Fork.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Ah, it looks considerably more like a bicycle if you slant your head 45 degrees to the left. :-)

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

and even more at 60 degrees!

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

So you got it within half an hour of me posting? I guess I should have translated all the text to Hebrew to slow you down.

[cnoocy]

That would have slowed me down some, yes.

[obonic.livejournal.com]

Looks like a cabalistic system. :)

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

That was the idea and in fact the inspiration. (If you want to build a pseudo-cabalistic magical system out of it, feel free :) )

[drjon.livejournal.com]

LASSIE! YOU CAME BACK!!!

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Good dog!

[mamagotcha.livejournal.com]

My first guess was person riding a unicycle.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

That almost works too - turn with the torso, push with the knees...

[rymrytr.livejournal.com]

(basic and independent) Robotic Layout Schematic?

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Not in this case. Though you could probably build one on this plan. (Are robots common objects for you?)

[rymrytr.livejournal.com]

No, I just tried to connect the words as concepts rather than a diagram. :o)

As for what I know, Life is like a Buffet for me... so little time that I sample everything I can, be it physical, as in building clocks (I made 7), intellectual or "beyond possibilities"...

Answer!

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's a bicycle.

Handlebars, Fork, 1st wheel
Saddle, Crank
2nd wheel

pdf: http://www.suberic.net/~dmm/magic/bikespheres.pdf

Re: Answer!

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Inspired by a coworker sketching a bike and me thinking all the components were laid out very regularly.

Re: Answer!

[dougo.livejournal.com]

So why is the front wheel "knowledge"?

Re: Answer!

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

You get a lot of road texture from the front wheel - if a bike had nerves, that's where they'd be. (It's a little bit of a stretch, admittedly.)