Why bicycles are so stable?

[john_childs]

Here's an interesting article about bicycling dynamics and modeling the stability of a bicycle design.

Blog post about the article: Why bicycles are so stable? (http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=697)

Blurb (press release) by the researchers: Delft researchers unravel the working of the bicycle (http://www.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=9eabd542-8382-4835-a820-a46393346948&lang=en)

PDF of the full article: Bicycles made to measure (http://www.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=e272f764-c4db-4765-938a-73501c352872&lang=en&binary=/doc/DO-07-3-2bicycles.pdf)

[BluntRM]

A genius undertaking: A simple device is deconstructed into 25 affected "realities" and actually made more finite in its' existence by our own collective comprehension of it, shared, absolute, controllable knowledge. This is truth. Not an abstract conception, but the physical and philosophical creation of an object towards a single truth and reality, 1=1. This rarely happens, it hasn't in this instance, but the framework is there.

[leo]

Delft? That means this research was paid from my tax money.
And now what can we do with this knowledge? Invent the bicycle?

[hobo_chuck]

Why are b*kes so stabled?
good question. i think its cause they are like unpredictable animals. mine keeps bucking me off, which is why i keep it in its stable.

[leo]

Why bicycles are so stable? (http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=697)
Or this stable (http://www.unicyclist.org/cont/play.cfm?pi=w320240kenny_2)!