Hillhater wrote:
extremegreenmachine wrote:
....its suprising they did not put the batteries in the mono-coat frame..
..... lighweigh carbon monocat is probably not as good as containing fire as the optibike and picycle which are both built with thick aluminum monocoat.
..the word is .." MONOCOQUE".. ..meaning .."single shell" .
thanks hillhater...unexpectedly learned something from this thread. thanks. as an english major i have no excuses...but then again....
I want to apologize in retrospect and in advance for all past and future misspellings...and thank the folks here at es for having a built in spell checker or there would be tons more....just dont put much weight in spelling...never did...way prefer to be a prolific poster than an anal speller. But as long as i am getting the points across i am happy. i type fast and post fast...thus all the half baked ideas but if i put more weigh on grammar my points would really flounder. Plus it would be a real chore to post and i would never do it...i know i know make a lot of guys here happier.
Almost failed out of high school because my high school teachers hated sloppy spelling but in college believe it or not they didnt mind it. I use to do thinks like invent my own words a lot which i guess is technically misspelling, in this case i think i improved a word...
coque means ribbon or feathers for tying on to hat...who the hell is going to remember monocoque when coque means some kind of bow tie.
The official definiton of monocoque is this: a type of construction (as of a fuselage) in which the outer skin carries all or a major part of the stresses
that sounds like an outer "coat" made out of metal or carbon fiber to me...so 'monocoat" seems better fit and is very similiar in sound so the es experts will know exactly what i am refferring to even though misspelled. Monocoque literally would not mean single frame but single ribbon or bow tie.
some snooty french bastard made up the word monocoque and it doesnt make any sense thus it is super rare word...so i will stick with just monocoat...as in the outer skin like a coat. Hopefully it starts to stick with some guy here on the sphere and he puts it in his next ebike engineering book and we can actually accomplish together make a slight improvement on the English language which is already hard language to learn and to use.
Monocoat is an easy word to remember and makes sense and may even have chance of sticing.
I never heard of a word being changed or invented on an internet forum...but in literature words are invented or changed all the time through time.
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