User contributions for MalcolmMcDonald
A user with 1,214 edits. Account created on 24 December 2008.
30 December 2010
- 17:4817:48, 30 December 2010 diff hist +1,499 Bicycle gearing Efficiency of the two common gearing systems
- 14:0414:04, 30 December 2010 diff hist +192 Rohloff Speedhub Many riders prefer to have the hub fitted on a purpose-built bicycle.
- 12:3412:34, 30 December 2010 diff hist +33 Rotary engine Lets go with a technically correct wording of what's described in detail in the body. It's also easily understood and remembered.
29 December 2010
- 20:3320:33, 29 December 2010 diff hist +288 Talk:Hub gear →Back Wheel Strength?
- 20:2620:26, 29 December 2010 diff hist +283 Talk:Rohloff Speedhub →This is advertising
- 20:0920:09, 29 December 2010 diff hist −55 Flat engine →Configuration
- 19:4819:48, 29 December 2010 diff hist +7 Internal combustion engine Add italics
- 11:1211:12, 29 December 2010 diff hist −106 Flat engine Rocking couple inevitable, regardless of extra main bearings.
- 11:0311:03, 29 December 2010 diff hist −101 Rotary engine By the early 1920s, however, the inherent limitations of this type of engine had rendered it obsolete, with the power output increasingly going into overcoming the air-resistance of spinning the engin
- 10:5210:52, 29 December 2010 diff hist −26 Rotary engine A famous motorcycle, winning many races, was the Megola, which had a rotary engine inside the front wheel.
- 10:1010:10, 29 December 2010 diff hist +1,263 Talk:Flat-twin engine →Maytag Washing machines
28 December 2010
- 21:1421:14, 28 December 2010 diff hist 0 Motorcycle accessories →Windscreen
- 20:0320:03, 28 December 2010 diff hist −36 Rotary engine Tidy up lead
- 19:5119:51, 28 December 2010 diff hist −283 Motorcycle Irrrelevant to the "Sport" riding position
- 19:2319:23, 28 December 2010 diff hist +1,548 Talk:Derailleur →Chain deflector add-ons
- 18:5118:51, 28 December 2010 diff hist +233 Internal combustion engine →Idling
- 18:1818:18, 28 December 2010 diff hist +98 Single-cylinder engine →Pros and Cons
- 17:2617:26, 28 December 2010 diff hist +225 Scooter (motorcycle) WordIQ is not a very reliable source, but it is more than adequate for something we all know anyway "Road motor scooters are tremendously popular in Europe ... for some reason not in the United States
- 17:1017:10, 28 December 2010 diff hist +707 Talk:Flat-twin engine →Maytag Washing machines
- 15:4315:43, 28 December 2010 diff hist −85 Roller chain →Wear
- 15:4015:40, 28 December 2010 diff hist −517 Roller chain →Lubrication
- 11:2711:27, 28 December 2010 diff hist +446 Scooter (motorcycle) Less popular in the US
- 10:4810:48, 28 December 2010 diff hist +420 Talk:Flat-twin engine →Maytag Washing machines
- 09:5809:58, 28 December 2010 diff hist +136 Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ghada Abdel Moneim →Ghada Abdel Moneim
- 09:2909:29, 28 December 2010 diff hist +555 Talk:Flat-twin engine →Maytag Washing machines
27 December 2010
- 23:5123:51, 27 December 2010 diff hist +19 Split-single engine →Regulation implications
- 23:4023:40, 27 December 2010 diff hist +223 User talk:AndrewDressel →Hub Gear
- 21:3421:34, 27 December 2010 diff hist −174 Mountain biking Reads badly, unreferenced
- 21:2821:28, 27 December 2010 diff hist −1 Citroën 2CV →History
- 21:2421:24, 27 December 2010 diff hist −456 User talk:MalcolmMcDonald I don't have to apologise for being censored by you - both those additions to the article are excellent sources.
- 21:0321:03, 27 December 2010 diff hist +430 Talk:Gerry Adams →A way forward?
- 20:4920:49, 27 December 2010 diff hist +417 Talk:Citroën 2CV →List of film appearances
- 20:4020:40, 27 December 2010 diff hist +24 Citroën 2CV hand-cranking, the jack handle serving as starting handle ... once universal on cars and still common into the 1950s, was kept until the end of production in 1990, by which time it was unique
- 20:3020:30, 27 December 2010 diff hist +1,150 Gerry Adams Two more statements amply well supported by the reliable sources that are being unreasonably excluded from the article contrary to consensus at talk.
- 20:2920:29, 27 December 2010 diff hist +566 Talk:Gerry Adams →A way forward?
- 19:4719:47, 27 December 2010 diff hist +1,586 Talk:Flat-twin engine Maytag washing machines
- 17:1717:17, 27 December 2010 diff hist +1,186 Talk:Gerry Adams →Wikileaks
- 16:3316:33, 27 December 2010 diff hist +415 Talk:Citroën 2CV I would have thought most of this was very easy to check and all of it should be returned to the article as being important material that's almost certainly correct.
- 16:1616:16, 27 December 2010 diff hist +368 Talk:Citroën 2CV →Wasted spark first used by Citroen on the 2CV?: new section
- 16:0716:07, 27 December 2010 diff hist −630 Flat-twin engine We don't need to know that a company that once made washing machines but is now part of Whirlpool once used a flat-twin engine (when? nowheret mentioned in Maytag article).
- 15:5515:55, 27 December 2010
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Flat-twin engine
Wasted sparkignition system, well suited to the flat-twin engine
- 15:5115:51, 27 December 2010 diff hist −169 Harley-Davidson This 45° angle is an engineering tradeoff that allows a large, high-torque engine in a relatively small space.
- 14:3414:34, 27 December 2010 diff hist −5 Citroën 2CV Photos to both sides of text
- 14:1814:18, 27 December 2010 diff hist −226 Citroën 2CV More duplication and irrelevancy removed.
- 14:1114:11, 27 December 2010 diff hist −450 Citroën 2CV don't need wasted spark advantages repeated here
- 12:4712:47, 27 December 2010 diff hist +617 Split-single engine Delete unreferencenced lubrication section
- 11:2311:23, 27 December 2010 diff hist +671 Talk:Vehicle →Revert of vehicle
- 11:1711:17, 27 December 2010 diff hist +1,118 User talk:AndrewDressel →Hub Gear
- 10:4910:49, 27 December 2010
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Wasted spark system
Unlike all other systems described (which fire two plugs simultaneously from a double-ended coil) the coil in this system has only a single HTlead running to the single plug.
26 December 2010
- 18:2818:28, 26 December 2010 diff hist +1,262 User talk:AndrewDressel →Hub Gear: new section
