"Nauraushaun" (nauraushaun12)
11/11/2020 at 19:49 • Filed to: None
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"Nauraushaun" (nauraushaun12)
11/11/2020 at 19:49 • Filed to: None | 2
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This does not mean “to be gentle to your machine”. It is not associated with the sympathy definition that’s to do with “feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else’s misfortune”.
Another meaning of sympathy is “understanding between people; common feeling”. And so, mechanical sympathy means “to understand your machine”.
Mechanical sympathy is when you know the slightly odd movement that eases it into 2nd without drama, the small tells that warn of impending traction loss before a slide comes on, the feeling that some component isn’t doing its job and may be leading to failure. It’s an understanding between you and your machine that can only be formed through time together.
Every time I see the phrase used, it's used incorrectly :)
bob and john
> Nauraushaun
11/11/2020 at 20:00 |
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so...wheelies is what i’m getting from t his? :D
Gamecat235
> Nauraushaun
11/11/2020 at 20:03 |
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Oooohhh so it is like rain on your wedding day?
Tohru
> Gamecat235
11/11/2020 at 20:25 |
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no, its like 10,000 forks when all you need is a knife
davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> Nauraushaun
11/11/2020 at 20:43 |
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The best example of mechanical sympathy that I’ve seen represented on film is Ken Miles in Ford v. Ferrari. He was far from gentle on his car(s), but he knew the absolute limit of what they could take.
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Nauraushaun
> davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
11/11/2020 at 21:08 |
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Exactly. Racing drivers are far from gentle, they beat the hell out of their cars to wring all the performance they can. But they know what they can do, and what they will do given an array of inputs.
SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
> Nauraushaun
11/11/2020 at 22:09 |
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Doesn’t much matter what one understands it to mean... given that most people still don’t have it regardless.
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Nauraushaun
> bob and john
11/12/2020 at 00:09 |
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ooh, definitely. wheelies require much mechanical sympathy
i86hotdogs
> davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
11/12/2020 at 07:36 |
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I need to watch this movie again
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i86hotdogs
> Nauraushaun
11/12/2020 at 07:37 |
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I always get “How can you be a car guy when you run your van in to the ground every weekend on rallycross courses?”
Because mechanical sympathy, that’s how.