More about the Bicycle
Bike Frames - A Case Study, A course on strength of materials (The Open
University, Milton Keynes, Great Britain, ).
Design, Bicycles, Invention and Innovation (The Open University, Milton Keynes,
Great Britain, ).
Motion 1 (Enschede, The Netherlands).
Motion 2 (Enschede, The Netherlands).
PLON Staff, Traffic (Utrecht, 1982). A significant fraction of traffic in The
Netherlands is bicycle, so this unit is related to the bicycle. Motion 1 & 2 (above)
incorporates much of the Traffic material in a more traditional instructional format
Philip DiLavore, Bicycle Module, in Physics of Technology series (American
Association of Physics Teachers, 1977) Also available on Physics InfoMall CD-ROM.
PING Project Staff, Wir bewgen uns fort (PING / KROB, Kiel, Germany, 1997)
VidShell by Doyle
Davis (free download)
DAVID -
Digitale Auswertung von Videos (free download)
Digitale Video-Analyse (DIVA) (order
form, price DM30,-)
Robert Fuller and Dean Zollman, Energy Transformations featuring the Bicycle, (Great
Plains Network, Lincoln, NE, 1984)
The collection below is an incomplete set of references related to the bicycle. It is incomplete in the sense that it does not include all available resources and some of the references below have parts missing.
Allan V. Abbot and David Gordon Wilson, Human-Powered Vehicles, (Human
Kinetics, Champaign, IL, 1995)
Walter Boon, Die Fahrradschaktung: Grundelagen, Auswahl, Einsatz (Moby Dick
Verlag, Kiel, Germany, 1997).
Bernd Bund and Christain Kuhtz, Einfälle statt Abfälle: Das Tretmobil (Verlag
Christian Kuhtz, Kiel, 1988). Plans for building a side-byside tandem bike. No
welding is needed.
Edmund Burke, Science of Cycling (Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL, 1986).
Edmund Burke, High-Tech Cycling (Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL, 1996).
M. Gressman, Fahrradphysik und biomechanik (Moby Dick Verlag, Kiel, Germany, 1996).
Hannes Heupert, Das Powerbike: Fahrräder mit elektrischem Zusatzantrieb
(Moby Dick Verlag, Kiel, Germany, 1997). Power bikes use an electrical motor to
assist the rider.
Christain Kuhtz, Einfälle statt Abfälle: Schwerlast-Dreirad (Verlag Christian
Kuhtz, Kiel, 1993) . Plans for building a cargo tricycle
Dimitrij Arentevich Poliskuk, Ciclismo: Preparacion, Teoria y Practica . Translated
from Russian to Spanish. Contains lots of data on bikes, riding, etc.
Etzel Smolik, Das Grasse Farradlexikan (Bielefelder Verlagsantalt, Bileefeld, 1997)
Frank Whitt and David Gordon Wilson, Bicycling Science, Second edition. (MIT Press,
Cambridge, MA, 198x). The best place to start when learning about the science of
bicycling
“The Stability of the Bicycle,” Physics Today 23 (April), 34
(1970).
Albert C.Gross, Chester R. Kyle, and Douglas J. Malweki "The Aerodynamics of
Human-powered Land Vehicles", Scientific American (December), 142 (1983)
Robert C. Hunt, “Bicycles in the Physics Lab,” The Physics Teacher 27,
160-165 (1989).
A.T. Jones, “Physics and Bicycles,” American Journal of Physics 10,
332 (1942).
J. Lowell, “The Stability of Bicycles,” American Journal of Physics 50,
1106-1112 (1982).
Peter Meroth, “Stadt Ohne Auto,” Natur: Das Umweltmagazine (July),
40-47 (1989).
Peter Schmidt, “Wie Fahrradfreundlich ist der Republik?,” Natur: Das
Umweltmagazine (August), 26-31 (1992).
Jügen Schreiber, “Kommt Zeit - kommt Rad,” Natur: Das Umweltmagazine
(September), 42-49 (1982).
Jr. Thomas B. Greenslade, “More Bicycle Physics,” The Physics Teacher 21,
360-363 (1983).
S. S. Wilson, “Bicycle Technology,” Scientific American 228 (March),
81 (1973).
Rainer Wochele, “Die Spass-Maschine,” Natur: Das Umweltmagazine
(April), 71-73 (1988).
Rainer Wochele, “Von Rahmen und Reifen,” Natur: Das Umweltmagazine
(April), 74-77 (1988)
Bicycling a U.S. monthly publication (Rodale Press)
Mountain Bike a U.S. monthly publication
American Flyers (German title Der Sieger - American Flyers) 1985 U.S.
film about bike racing
Breaking Away 1979 U.S. film about the Little 500 bicycle race at Indiana
University
Pacific Blues (German title: Pacific Blues: Die Strandpolizei) 1996
U.S. TV series about police who patrol the beach on bicycles. My brief watching
indicates that the camera spends more time focused on other beach objects and not on
bicycles
Bicycle: Fahrrad Software, CD-ROM (Modern Games, Alsdorf, Germany, 1996). A
collection of shareware related to the bicycle. Some of the programs are only
vaguely related.
Videosequenzen
zur Auswertung mit DAVID A collection of videos which includes several bicycle
(Fahrrad in German) scenes
“The Evolution of Bicycle,” (BBC, London, )
"Trial and Error" in the Search for Solutions series (Phillips Petroleum,
Bartlesville, OK, 198x). One example of the Trial & Error approach is designing fast
human powered vehicles.
Bicyle Links (This one has 575 links)
Analytic Cycling Investigate mathematical
models related to cycling
A Virtual Bicycle using
a Silicon Graphics workstation
Cycling and Human Powered Vehicles
Bike_power - the program
Pedaling History - the Burgwardt Bicycle
Museum
Bicycle HPV Recumbent Resources
& Sources by Cycle America the National Bicycle Greenway in action
HPV Recumbent Supply
Recumbent Cyclist News
International Human Powered Vehicle Association
International Bicycle Fund
ADFC Willkommen
HPV Deutschland e.V.
Andere Fahrradverbände in
Europa
Bicycle Beano
Vegetarian Cycling Tours
Travel to Horizon
eShare Reunion BBS Server
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