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1o) Andy Ruina's Web Page

Has links to the research that has occurred in the Cornell Bicycle Project. Much work has been done by Papadopolous, Hand, Schwab, Ruina, Dressel, and Meijaard to develop a benchmark bicycle model and to comprehensively sort through all previous attempts and the development of an unmanned bicycle model. Many important papers can be found here along with links to current related work.

2o) Gregory Watkins' Web Page

His PhD dissertation is available here. He used Hand's bicycle model and CFD to understand how gusts of wind affect the stability of a fully faired recumbent bicycle.

3o) Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Information

This is best online resource for all sorts of technical know-how about bicycles.

4o) Andrew Dressel's Web Page

Andrew works in Andy Ruina's lab at Cornell and is working on bicycle simulation. He co-created a great program called JBike6 for the Whipple bicycle model that is linked from his page.

5o) Arend L. Schwab's Web Page

Schwab has worked with Ruina, Papadopolous, Meijaard, and Dressel on the benchmark bicycle model. A link to Jodi Kooijman's master's thesis can be found here. Kooijman verified the benchmark bicycle model experimentally.

6o) Dynamics and Control of Nonholonomic Dynamical Systems

Neil Getz's Papers on bicycle control can be found here.

7o) Lose the Training Wheels

Richard Klein from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign has done years of research on bicycle dynamics. He used his knowledge about bicycle stability to develop a program for people to learn to ride a bike with bicycles specifically designed for low speed stability. There is a bicycle science section of the web page that includes his challenge to ride a rear steer bicycle.

8o) Tony Foale Designs

Tony Foale wrote a 2002 book on motorcycle handling and chassis design. His site includes articles, software downloads, and information on his seminars.

9o) The Fajans Group Home Page

Fajans is a physicist at UC Berkeley and has written some things on bicycling physics.

10o) UC Davis Sports Biomechanics Lab

This is the lab where I am doing my research under Dr. Mont Hubbard. Some bicycle stability work has been done in the past and references can be found here.

11o) Single Track Vehicle Design

This is a site for the Cal Poly course in bicycle design developed and taught by Bill Patterson. Details for purchasing the book for the class, "The Lords of the Chainring," can be found here. The book is primarily about developing design criteria for choosing frame geometry that will provide the best handling qualities. This is one of the few attempts at connecting the human controller to the bicycle's dynamics and is along the lines of what I am trying to do with my research.

12o) Russell G. Keanini's Web Page

Keanini and Watkins teach a course on Human Powered Engineering at UNCC and are currently writing a book for the course.

13o) John Forester's Web Page

John Forester is a cycling transportation engineer and has written many books and articles on bicycling. His article on the stability of the Da Hon bicycle can be found here. He also has some books and articles on effective cycling that may be of use in classifying maneuvers.

14o) W. B. Patterson's Web Page

This is another web page about Bill Patterson's bicycle handling qualities theory which is detailed in [2b].

15o) Murata Boy

Murata built a robot bicycle to show off the capabilities of their sensors. The robot seems to be able to balance at zero speed.

16o) Bicycle Performer Video

This is the most impressive bicycle handling I have ever seen. This woman puts track stands to shame. The interesting thing to note is that this bike is ridden in a rear-steered configuration for a very long time. The bicycle has a very steep head tube angle and little or no fork offset.

17o) Imperial College Electrical Engineering Control and Power Two Wheeled Road Vehicles Research Page

This web page presents the research of Robin Sharp (one of the forerunners in motorcycle dynamics and control), David Limebeer, and Simos Evangelou.