Self Stabalising Motorcycle...

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by Exige, Mar 8, 2015.

  1. I've got a car already thanks.
     
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  2. 10 years time that will be on all bikes under European safety laws.
     
  3. It's all been done before, many times. Gyroscopically stabilised two-wheel vehicles have been built in various designs over the past 100 years. They do have several severe drawbacks. One is that they continuously consume energy just to remain upright. Another is problems going round corners. This present effort adds to those all the drawbacks inherent in battery-electric designs.
     
  4. Here's a 1912 effort, the Gyrocar designed by Count Schilovski, built in Birmingham:

    Shilovski gyrocar 1912.jpg
     
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  5. I don't like really, just liked your post :)
     
  6. Hmmm. They titled the video, the motorcycle that doesn't fall over. Well my bike has never fell over. It's been crashed and dropped, but fall over? Not happened the last 20 years so I'll take my chance.
     
  7. My uncle had the three wheel Brough with the Austin Seven engine in it...........two rear wheels......

    He pulled into a garage with a puncture (not the garage) removed one rear wheel and rode off home for his dinner......came back later, put the mended wheel back on and went back to work.....

    ......another day he was nicked for riding round a roundabout backwards in reverse gear....

    That bike didn't fall over with both rear wheels, but it was a pig to ride solo, he said...........When he bought it he didn't realise it had been produced for a sidecar to be attached.

    Looked like this only in burgundy paint colour.

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