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What You Really Know About Bicycles

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What You Really Know About Bicycles
> http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2015/07/06/420513593/what-you-really-know-about-bicycles


> About 94 percent of Americans know how to ride a bike. For some, it's
> a primary form of transport, for others an occasional diversion.
>
> But for just about everyone, bicycles are a familiar artifact of
> contemporary life — a simple device that's easy to recognize and easy
> to understand. Unlike a car, or even a motorcycle, a bicycle's
> mechanism is straightforward and on display. We can all appreciate
> how the pedals make the wheels turn, how steering works, and why
> bikes don't simply fall over. Right?
>
> Wrong.
>
> It turns out the science of bicycles — "bicycle dynamics" — is
> surprisingly complex and only partially understood. And when we turn
> from experts to laypeople, those of us who occasionally ride a bike
> but wouldn't know a coefficient of friction if it stopped us in the
> street — well, our ignorance is pretty impressive.
>
> A paper by Rebecca Lawson — cleverly titled "The science of cycology"
> and published in the journal Memory & Cognition — investigated
> people's understanding of bicycles. What she found was that many
> people fall flat on the basics.




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What You Really Know About Bicycles Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 21:24 -0500
  Re: What You Really Know About Bicycles Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 21:30 -0500
    Re: What You Really Know About Bicycles Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-08-23 03:42 +0000
    Re: What You Really Know About Bicycles benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2015-08-23 00:16 -0400
  Re: What You Really Know About Bicycles "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-08-23 13:15 -0700
    Re: What You Really Know About Bicycles HVAC <Mr.HVAC@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 06:01 -0400
      Re: What You Really Know About Bicycles "Bast" <fakename@nomail.invalid> - 2015-08-24 10:28 -0400
        Re: What You Really Know About Bicycles HVAC <Mr.HVAC@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 11:32 -0400
          Re: What You Really Know About Bicycles "Bast" <fakename@nomail.invalid> - 2015-08-24 13:52 -0400
            Re: What You Really Know About Bicycles benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2015-08-26 00:40 -0400
              Re: What You Really Know About Bicycles HVAC <Mr.HVAC@gmail.com> - 2015-08-26 07:33 -0400

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