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Letter: How do bicycles stay upright?

Published 23 September 2015

From David Boswell

This is the wrong question. It should read “How does a human stay upright on a bicycle?” The ability to cycle must lie in proprioceptive mechanisms, presumably centred on the inner ear, and our visual system, along with fine-tuned neuromuscular control.
Timsbury, Somerset, UK

Issue no. 3040 published 26 September 2015

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