matsemann

But on the other hand, I also wonder if those that get pumped out now, also uses up all the oxygen in the room for the really great ones.

Like, someone shoddily slaps together one for concept X. It's not great, has some misunderstandings, and what it visualizes is mostly random and not the vision of the maker. But it goes semi-viral, and beat everyone else to the punch. So it ruins someone else's motivation to do it properly.

Whether having zero offset or not isn't what matter in the end, but the trail. And you can achieve that with little offset as long as the fork is angled.

(so the grandparent is a bit right in their critique, but not for the reason stated)

But even with zero offset, there is another thing in play. The steering axis is at an angle, a fork never points straight down. So even with zero offset, you still get a trail, which is the difference between the contact point of the wheel at the ground, and where the steering axis meets the ground. This trail is really what matters in the end, not how you get there.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_and_motorcycle_geometr...

But even better, play with (ctrl+f) "trail" in this simulation: https://ciechanow.ski/bicycle/

There you see the point. Even with zero offset, there is still a trail.

People drawing bikes, scroll down to see they having made renders of all the drawings. Hilarious

Aka lost sales.

I would've liked to understand more about why it works the way it does, how it achieved the correct feel etc, not just regurgitate whatever the code does.

I would've liked to know more about how the author achieved what they did, not a blog post anyone with an llm could've written.

Using "demanded" to get an agreed upon payment is loaded language, and I'm honestly baffled by your takes here.

I read through these once. For those where I've been in the wrong, it's two patterns repeating. Either that I learned something in school / as a kid, and it was "correct" at the time but now we know better. Or that the common belief has just always been wrong.

Examples include that "glass is liquid", "bulls hate red", "touching a baby bird will make the mother abandon it", "you only taste salt on part X of your tongue" etc.

Windows 11 shipped with a broken task bar, couldn't even ungroup items. No power users was ever involved in this.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2026/popular-inf...