re extraordinary footpeg engineering in article apr csdvax csd unsw edu au exb csdvax csd unsw edu au writes okay dod ers here s a goddamn mystery for ya the stud on the side of the bike that clunked when i turned was absent i m fairly sure it was there before the event in fact the thread in the hole in the footpeg was perfectly intact with no evidence of something having been forcefully ripped out of it only moments previously okay all you engineering types how the f k do you explain this how can you rip a tightly fitting steel thread out of a threaded hole in alloy without damaging the thread in the hole you can t knock a threaded stud out from its hole without destroying the threads also part of the stud would still be in the hole therefore the stud was not in the hole before you touched something down on that side of the bike dr doom
