I asked a physics professor that once, long ago, and triggered a massive firestorm on a mailing list, and I know led partially to Jones' paper. His conclusion was that it wasn't gyroscopic, since there wasn't enough force generated to keep a bike upright in all cases.
So, interesting. R On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Andy Bach <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 11:11 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That can't be right! >> > > Apparently it's not the gyroscope (oh dear, I've been lying to those kids > at the Learn to Ride sessions! ;-) or "caster" (no idea) effects: > > http://ruina.tam.cornell.edu/research/topics/bicycle_mechanics/stablebicycle/ > > so, seems that way. > -- > > a > > Andy Bach, > [email protected] > 608 658-1890 cell > 608 261-5738 wk > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org > > -- Just imagine a really neat quote here
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