Re: Why Do People Fall Down?

Mr. Ed Dolan the Grate wrote:
> "Prisoner at War" <prisoner_at_war@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:1193339577.469836.227250@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> I mean, when it's a nice flat road, no one's around them, it's sunny,
>> dry, no winds...how do people just go plop! in front of you like that?
>>
>> I saw this three times on Sunday's Tour de Bronx in NYC (great ride;
>> free food and water and no helmets required!!!)...they're not going
>> fast, they weren't going downhill, no one was around them (I was a
>> good four yards behind), and suddenly they fall.  Just like that.
>>
>> I fall out of my bike like once every five years due to trying to ride
>> down stairs or something like that.  How do these people just fall in
>> perfectly good conditions?  They weren't newbie riders either,
>> apparently.
>>
>> Weird.
> 
> What's the matter - can't keep a single user name? Try your real name 
> sometime why don't you!
> 
> The reason people fall is because being on only 2 wheels is inherently 
> unstable. If you never want to fall, get a 3 wheeled re***bent.
Elementary 
> my dear Watson!

Within certain limitations. I saw someone flip a Thebis trike [1] when 
trying to turn too sharply. However, the high seat and rear steering of 
the (long out of production) Thebis makes it an oddity, even among 
re***bents.

Upright trikes are very easy to flip when cornering.

To flip a low seat tadpole trike requires pu****ng things well beyond 
sensible limits.

> Mr. Tom Sherman, an engineering and physics jerk, could explain this in 
> terms that even you could understand, but all he is capable of these
days is 
> pissing me off - so the less we hear from him, the better.

The trick is to miss the ground when you fall.

[1] <http://www.jggrafx.com/thomsstuff/thebis1.jpg>.

-- 
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
When did ignorance of biology become a "family value"?