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RE: Gyroscopic balance

To: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: Gyroscopic balance
From: john robinson <john@engr.wisc.edu>
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 09:34:24 -0600
At 08:42 AM 12/5/01, you wrote:
>You could probably compensate for that with rear
>wheel steering.
>
>hee hee hee
>Dick J
>--- Jon Wennerberg <jonw@up.net> wrote:
> > Unh, before you twist that crankshaft to a
> > vertical position I'd consider
> > the likelihood of a torque reaction that would
> > try to spin the bike around
> > the axis of the crank.

Hot damn, see I told you this list is gold, ( well OK somebody said that!) 
we can get a rear steer streamliner steering  with the gyros! ha.....great 
idea.....

              John Robinson, Mechanician
   Mechanical Engineering University of Wisconsin
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                   136.666 MPH set 1996
                   140.292 MPH set 2000
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