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Video: how do bikes stay up?
"Perhaps more incredible than humans riding bicycles is the fact that bicycles can ride themselves".
Once set in motion, a bike can stay upright and, if knocked from one side, will steer itself so the wheel once again ends up under the centre of mass, allowing it to continue in the new direction.
But how does it happen?
As this illuminating video, by Minute Physics, explains, with a lone bicycle eerily heading off across a field by itself, it's down to three main mechanisms, which are all related to the bike's ability to steer and right itself, given enough momentum.
Although this helps explain the mechanics behind Bradley Wiggins' self parking bike, the exact combinations of variables which work to make the bicycle stay upright on its own still aren't known to science, leaving a tantalising degree of mystery. Enjoy!
If Rose/Canyon have any sense and the volume supports it they should set up an assembly Center in the UK somewhere.
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I've heard of a phtase like that 'flash for cash' I think it is, where naughty drivers try to tempt people into accident situations to claim...
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I hope so as I love Thai food. I'm not sure the coconut palms will survive our climate though.
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Again, this proves what I have found out about the anti-cyclists over the last 63 years - they are stupid people who make up facts.
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Of course it's a problem with the road, fool.