CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 16years old!
Well done to ALL posters
It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
http://www.newstatesman.com/science/2013/08/we-still-don%E2%80%99t-really-know-how-bicycles-work
"[...] 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."
Flann O'Brien was right.
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.
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.
Or try a trike. They work the way people think a bike works.
Bikes are inverted pendulums.
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