FOR MANY YEARS, THE university boffins who sought to discover what kept bicycles upright agreed that two forces were responsible – gyroscopic and caster (also called trail) effects. But more recent research has found that it’s more complicated than that and includes other factors, including the brain.
Hugh Hunt, of the University of Cambridge, says that our brain compensates for the wobbling of the bicycle and we learn to smooth the ride.
Hunt says that gyroscopic forces are not important for the stability of a bicycle, but they help us to
