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Re: [Phys-l] stable bicycle

On 11/18/2011 8:29 AM, Anthony Lapinski wrote:
A student sent this to me, so I thought I'd share it wit the group. It's
research at Cornell of a bike without gyroscopes. Interesting!

http://ruina.tam.cornell.edu/research/topics/bicycle_mechanics/stablebicycle/index.htm

In a recent paper, I noticed that steering into a turn with frame tilt is helped by
the low mass of dropped handlebars, which the 'beater' bike demo certainly seems to confirm.

Brian W