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Research ideas for the TU Delft Bicycle Laboratorium
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Compare stability and/or handling of different road bicycle downhill body positions #41

Open moorepants opened 3 years ago

moorepants commented 3 years ago

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The UCI banned the "super tuck" position claiming that it was unsafe:

https://www.velonews.com/news/road/egan-bernal-michal-kwiatkowski-question-uci-priorities-in-wake-of-super-tuck-ban/

But it is quite unclear what criteria they use to determine the safety of such a position. It would be interesting to develop some bicycle models with different rider (aero) positions and rider-bicycle connections and determine if there is any effect on the open loop stability. Extending to closed loop could be interesting too, but we need a decent control model for these odd positions, which is likely different than normal positions.

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