Timeline for What makes a bike stay upright when moving?
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| Aug 8, 2011 at 16:40 | comment | added | MarkovCh1 | New Scientist is certainly NOT a credible source of scientific information. | |
| Jul 6, 2011 at 2:30 | comment | added | Мסž | @ʍǝɥʇɐɯ: what annoys me is that they don't seem to have published their solution (the equations), so I can't compare their results to Bill "Lords of the Chainring" ones, so it's all just fluff. It's not science if you can't reproduce the results. | |
| Jul 5, 2011 at 22:48 | comment | added | ʍǝɥʇɐɯ | @Мסž - I read the article a few weeks back now and it smelt a bit of 'popular science', but did get me thinking and talking with a cycling neighbour. Personally I believe it to be Jedi 'the Force' (lesser described as the 'fear of the rider experiencing gravel rash') that keeps the bike upright. | |
| Jul 5, 2011 at 21:56 | comment | added | Мסž | @ʍǝɥʇɐɯ: except that the study talked about in the article replicates similar work in the 1980's, and there are pictures of equivalent apparatus from the 1930's. So it's more a case of "once again, scientists have re-discovered that an urban legend if false". I wouldn't class it as IG-Nobel quality, but it's nothing like as exciting as they claim. I'm told that using Bill Wassisname's equations on their test bikes gives answers that agree with their experiments, for instance. | |
| Jul 5, 2011 at 21:40 | comment | added | Moab | Its funny, the more scientists study something the less they know, they discover more questions than answers. | |
| Jul 5, 2011 at 20:40 | history | answered | ʍǝɥʇɐɯ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |