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The mysterious biomechanics of riding – and balancing – a bicycle

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imageEasy to remember how to do, hard to figure out how it's working.Rob Bertholf, CC BY

imageMan on a velocipede, circa 1870.State Library of South Australia, CC BY

Humans have been riding bicycle-like machines for close to 200 years, beginning with the Draisine or “velocipede” in 1817.

While riding and balancing a bicycle can seem simple and...

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