Re: counter-steering--Physics Today Reference

[Dennis.E.Krause@williams.edu (Dennis E. Krause)]

> > Being more the experimental than theoretical type, I suggest building
> > a front wheel assembly with an adjustable counter-rotating  component to
> > reduce, cancel, or reverse the gyroscopic effects and try riding.
> > This might reduce some of the arguments.
> > I'm afraid I am not prepared to construct the experiment at this time.
> > Sorry.
>
> That's OK. It has been done already. The results were published in
> Physics Today back in the seventies. Anyone have the reference handy?

        Yes, I do.  One of my students was interested in the bicycle
stability problem last semester.  The reference is:

        "The Stability of the Bicycle" by D. E. H. Jones, Physics Today
        April, 1970, pp. 34-40.


                                                Dennis


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