Bike stability revisited
09-28-11, 07:04 PM
#1
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 604
Bikes: LeMond Zurich
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 2 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Bike stability revisited
https://www.sciencefriday.com/videos/watch/10376
Science Friday highlights self steering riderless bike with no trail and no gyroscopic wheels.
__________________
I’m not familiar precisely with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said whatever it was.
I’m not familiar precisely with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said whatever it was.
Last edited by Poppaspoke; 09-28-11 at 07:07 PM.
09-28-11, 07:42 PM
#2
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Bay Area, Calif.
Posts: 7,239
Mentioned: 13 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 659 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 7 Times
in
6 Posts
There was a rather extensive study of bicycle stability done by Jones in his article published in Physics Today, April, 1970:
https://home.phys.ntnu.no/brukdef/und...bleBicycle.pdf
https://home.phys.ntnu.no/brukdef/und...bleBicycle.pdf
