Bike to the drawing board

Crapaud
Crapaud Posts: 2,483
edited June 2011 in The bottom bracket
An article about bike design, mathematics and bike science in New Scientist: Bike to the drawing board
... All in all, "as easy as riding a bike" is turning out to be a rather misleading saying. "I have a colleague who studies how pilots control aircraft, and he says riding a bike is much more complex," says Mont Hubbard of the University of California, Davis. ...
... "If you try to change the design of a bicycle any which way it gets worse, everybody knows that," ...
... "We have the equations," says Andy Ruina of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. "It's just that we don't know what they mean." ...

I'd have thought that they'd have it all worked out by now, but apparently not.
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill

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  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    I spotted that online yesterday and waded through all 3 pages only to find they still have no idea.

    So I didn't bother posting a link :D
  • Zachariah
    Zachariah Posts: 782
    Invisible Pink Unicorns keep bikes upright with their horns.
  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    So the sky should be full of 5 year olds flying planes then.
  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    Stewie Griffin wrote:
    So the sky should be full of 5 year olds flying planes then.
    As long as they're wearing a lid they should be fine. :D
    A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill

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