jobst brandt wrote:

anonymous writes:

http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~fajans.../bicycles.html

or: http://tinyurl.com/pswa

I read it last night, it is a great article.

I can't imagine you read all that because it wallows around endlessly
in unclear descriptions of what was tried and what results he got.
For instance, try to find whether the bicycle with a counter-rotation
wheel next to the front wheel was controllable riding no-hands and
how it was different. I read that part several times and am still
unclear about what he found.

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| Gingerly, and with great trepidation, I tried the experiment --
| downhill, to avoid complicating the effort with pedalling. URB I is not
| an easy bicycle to ride "hands off" even with the front wheel static; it
| somehow lacks balance and responsiveness. In the disrotatory mode it was
| almost impossible and invited continual disaster, but it could, just, be
| done.
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