Hi Dirk, At 01:44 AM 10/31/2005, you wrote: >> At large trail numbers, self-stability seems less sensitive to pivot >> angle than other factors. If the pivot angle lessens the trail, that >> is a bigger effect. >> Unfortunately, the program does not model how the bikes "feel" in the >> general sense... >> >> I tried to model Dirk's 20", and it seems it can be close to self >> stable with some reasonable, small, pivot input from the rider >> (torsional K in the model). > >But the self stability seems to be only on 34km/h. Would that actually >also mean that from this speed onwards there is another effect (whcih >one?) active that makes bike handling different? I'm a bit leery of the results, as they depend on some negative torsion about the pivot for the python. I can't say how the body's real response corresponds to K, but it seems that it must to some degree because our bikes are ridable! >> I want to mount my vid camera on my back rack tomorrow for a weekend >> ride. We'll see... >> Vids are also now in the Internet archive: >> http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=python%20recumbent >> I also just noticed the a Google search for recumbent+python puts my >> page on top! http://www.google.com/search?q=recumbent+python > >I think its much dependant on when google spiders last hit the webpages. >And probably it helps a lot that your page is a no frills page? For Google it seems that it does >I just >tried it to go to your website, and it was second now. The video is now >first! It is still first for me. Most people think that Google tracks your searches in many ways. If you have cookies on and always use the same IP number, they will build a profile of your searches and click-throughs and taylor the results! I just read yesterday that they have 2x the ad "relevance" of Yahoo! for that reason. Thanks, Ray -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.4/146 - Release Date: 10/21/2005 ============================================================ This is the Python Mailinglist at freelists.org Listmaster: Jürgen Mages jmages@xxxxxx To unsubscribe send an empty mail to python-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field. ============================================================