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CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: How do bicycle work? "We simply don't know" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: How do bicycle work? "We simply don't know" en Wed, 13 May 2026 05:02:40 +0000 wee folding bike on "How do bicycle work? "We simply don't know"" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10915#post-121827 Wed, 14 Aug 2013 16:48:01 +0000 wee folding bike 121827@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Or try a trike. They work the way people think a bike works. Bikes are inverted pendulums. LaidBack on "How do bicycle work? "We simply don't know"" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10915#post-121815 Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:50:39 +0000 LaidBack 121815@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ To fully understand why some bikes don't work the way you think they do then you should try a recumbent. ;-) That way you take out all the upper body stuff and just concentrate on balance. Cyclingmollie on "How do bicycle work? "We simply don't know"" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10915#post-121806 Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:25:45 +0000 Cyclingmollie 121806@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ crowriver, I enjoyed The Third Policeman very much. It was recommended in a list of books about cycling. But the actual section about bicycles is only a page or two in a long procession of weirdness: the Russian dolls, the very sharp blade, the two dimensional house, the underground machinery etc. Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore has a similar weirdness but in a Japanese setting. But sadly no bikes. crowriver on "How do bicycle work? "We simply don't know"" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10915#post-121801 Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:06:44 +0000 crowriver 121801@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Flann O'Brien was right. cb on "How do bicycle work? "We simply don't know"" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10915#post-121798 Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:47:44 +0000 cb 121798@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/science/2013/08/we-still-don%E2%80%99t-really-know-how-bicycles-work">http://www.newstatesman.com/science/2013/08/we-still-don%E2%80%99t-really-know-how-bicycles-work</a> "[...] the gyroscopic effects are not enough to keep a bike upright after all. What does? We simply don’t know. Forget mysterious dark matter and the inexplicable accelerating expansion of the universe; the bicycle represents a far more embarrassing hole in the accomplishments of physics."