[python] Re: Stability Theory

At 09:14 AM 2/20/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>Just to qualify the word "our", I meant "our" as in my python and my
>friend's.  They're both rideable, but as we got a renewed hit of winter, any
>high speed data will have to wait for a while yet.  I don't think your app
>went far enough to accommodate the length of our python's. 

The newer, metric version has a wheelbase range of 100-150cm, correspondingly 
in the Imperial version. 
Since almost anything is ridable with practice and attention, the idea is to 
use the self-stable model as an indication of what is more easily ridable and 
safe at speed. I was reading 
http://ruina.tam.cornell.edu/research/topics/bicycle_mechanics/papers/bicycle_steering.pdf
yesterday, and skimming down toward the end there is some useful discussion of 
response and oscillation frequencies; some which would be catastrophic on a 
free-rolling bike are easily damped by hands/legs of a rider, others not.

Ray 

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