industry sponsored bicycle research

[Stephen Cain]

Hi all,

Here is some interesting news about Eddy Merckx Cycles teaming up with researchers to investigate bicycle stability:

http://www.bikeradar.com/road/news/article/eddy-merckx-cycles-to-investigate-bike-stability--36944/

Regards,
Stephen

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[Andy Ruina]

Arend:

Paper title:  Why bike riders, including Albert Einstein and Eddy Merks,

stick out their knees when they turn.

Research: yet to be done.

-andy

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[Jason Moore]

Does anyone have any idea who the researchers at Ghent University are that will be working on this?

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[Andrew Dressel]

Meh, probably just a couple of guys from the physics department. How hard can it be, right?

The bigger question for me is who coughed up €150,000 to study bicycle stability?

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From: moore...@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 08:28:34 -0700
Subject: Re: [stvdy] industry sponsored bicycle research
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[Jason Moore]

It looks like it is folks from Ghent's composites department. They've collaborated with Merckx cycles in the past on materials stuff. The 150K came from the IWT, the Flemish government agency for Innovation by Science and Technology. See these:

http://www.techtransfer.ugent.be/en/support-for-industry/poster-composite-testing

http://www.eddymerckx.com/news/read/article/345

Jason
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