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I usually stay upright on my bike unless I fall :)
I have no idea how I come across articles like these but there you go. BTW, I am off for a 3-week break as I figured you all needed some quality time to yourselves without me http://arstechnica.com/science/news/...we-thought.ars |
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I usually stay upright on my bike unless I fall :)
Geoff Lock wrote:
I have no idea how I come across articles like these but there you go. BTW, I am off for a 3-week break as I figured you all needed some quality time to yourselves without me http://arstechnica.com/science/news/...we-thought.ars There was a good article some time back (that I've since lost of course), relating to motorcycles that explained how steering works. It explained the nature of countersteering, and the curvature of they tyres (as opposed to "flat" tyres on cars) and how that factors into the physics. -- I haven't lost my mind, I know exactly where I left it. |
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I usually stay upright on my bike unless I fall :)
On 2011-04-23, Geoff Lock glock@home wrote:
I have no idea how I come across articles like these but there you go. BTW, I am off for a 3-week break as I figured you all needed some quality time to yourselves without me http://arstechnica.com/science/news/...we-thought.ars This article's wrong in a couple of details - it's not a computer model, the researchers at TU Delft actually built a physical model with zero gyroscopic effects and a small _negative_ trail. Article (with videos) from the original source he http://bicycle.tudelft.nl/stablebicycle/ Basically gyro effect and trail contribute to stability, but they're not the whole story. -- John "Let me check my notes." - Riff, "Sluggy Freelance" |
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I usually stay upright on my bike unless I fall :)
On 24/04/2011 9:24 AM, Geoff Lock wrote:
BTW, I am off for a 3-week break as I figured you all needed some quality time to yourselves without me Phew |
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I usually stay upright on my bike unless I fall :)
On 2011-04-24, John Tserkezis (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea: Geoff Lock wrote: I have no idea how I come across articles like these but there you go. BTW, I am off for a 3-week break as I figured you all needed some quality time to yourselves without me http://arstechnica.com/science/news/...we-thought.ars There was a good article some time back (that I've since lost of course), relating to motorcycles that explained how steering works. It explained the nature of countersteering, and the curvature of they tyres (as opposed to "flat" tyres on cars) and how that factors into the physics. Except that you can steer on on a motorbike with flat tires in just the same way as normal. They don't handle brilliantly, but they do handle. As usual, there is a fashion including this stupid behaviour (fitting flat tires to motorbikes) somewhere in the US. -- TimC "COGITO, EGGO SUM." I think, therefore I am a waffle. Mr. Ska on Slashdot.org |
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I usually stay upright on my bike unless I fall :)
TimC wrote:
Except that you can steer on on a motorbike with flat tires in just the same way as normal. They don't handle brilliantly, but they do handle. As usual, there is a fashion including this stupid behaviour (fitting flat tires to motorbikes) somewhere in the US. You see that on trikes and sidecars, I can't say that I've seen it on a 2-wheeler though. BTH -- Posted at www.usenet.com.au |
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I usually stay upright on my bike unless I fall :)
On 2011-05-02, BT Humble (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea: TimC wrote: Except that you can steer on on a motorbike with flat tires in just the same way as normal. They don't handle brilliantly, but they do handle. As usual, there is a fashion including this stupid behaviour (fitting flat tires to motorbikes) somewhere in the US. You see that on trikes and sidecars, I can't say that I've seen it on a 2-wheeler though. There's a Youtube video floating around somewhere. -- TimC Always carry a short length of fibre-optic cable. If you get lost, then you can drop it on the ground, wait ten minutes, and ask the backhoe operator how to get back to civilization. -- Mike Andrews in NANAE |
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