Hi Simmo (Alec)

Or a tricycle! I was on a 'Star Riders' instructor's course many moons ago (are they still going?) and one of the other instructors who was a motorcycle dealer turned up with a Honda 3- and 4-wheel ATV on a trailer, you know, like farmers have as runabouts on their farms. Well, talkabout laugh, we laughed ourselves silly. Thing was, we'd just been doing slow riding on our own bikes through/around the traffic cones on the yard, so we were all in the two wheel mode and found it all but impossible to change the whole mindset to handle the three and four wheelers.

Hey- this thread's got awfully inteletchiwul all sudden (and why not.) I did know that I wasn't moving the bars a lot but until the Twig-and-tape experiment I really didn't realize how little.

Braindead: thanks for that, it's going to take just a little while to digest the contents of the site you mentioned, there's a whole lot of heavy stuff in there.

As for gyroscopes, I've never been able to get my mind around those, despite having tried. On the subject of the gyroscopic action of the wheels, I wonder what would happen if you could mount a wheel geared to spin in the opposite direction to the roadwheel and mounted side by side with it so as to cancel the gyroscopic effect; perhaps it would end up behaving like the ski you mentioned?

My brain hurts

John

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