A very real case for the patent lawyers

[DrWhat]

I've seen this before and it IS very impressive.

Now imagine that each of the wheels is a pair of weights. Notice how he can lift the bike up so high without a ramp? He raises the front wheel (weight) and then once it is up he raises the rear wheel (weight). There may be an analogy to a pair of weights in the Bessler wheel.

[nicbordeaux]

Did some one say something about no brakes!

YOU'VE GOT TO WATCH THIS. YOU WON'T BELIEVE YOUR EYES. NO MAGIC. JUST A GUY WHO KNOW HOW TO RIDE A BIKE.

I thought. I'm not interested in this. Then I couldn't turn it off. Then I thought of what his Mother must have been thinking when the said he was just going off to ride his bike!!!

As you watch this, it just keeps getting more and more insane!!! Click the link below.



http://link.brightcove.com/services/pla ... 1337502001

Yes, it's an ad for some company, the rider is from Sctoland, the thing is shot in Edinbrgh I think. It's insane riding, the guy will be in a wheel chair by the time he's 40...

Still, it apparantly defies the laws of grav and stuff as to what we consider to be possible to achieve with a machine. And in that sense it's very relevant to "PM" devvices, because it shows what perfect timing can do.

[nicbordeaux]

I've seen this before and it IS very impressive.

Now imagine that each of the wheels is a pair of weights. Notice how he can lift the bike up so high without a ramp? He raises the front wheel (weight) and then once it is up he raises the rear wheel (weight). There may be an analogy to a pair of weights in the Bessler wheel.

I guess it's not quite as simple as lifting wheel front then back. Or maybe it is. What I can say for sure from trials riding is that if you approach an obstacle with a little V, apply and immediately release the front brake (violent action front brake), if you timing is right, you take off, although the front wheel has been stopped, the inertia (or is it transfer of mass ?)means that when you release the brake, the bike continues forward and you can easily lift it off the floor. Some people can control that sort of stuff. I couldn't. Now I ride road bikes :)

This does have applications in self running stuff.

[greendoor]

Wow - impressive riding. I'm impressed how he appears to get lift from converting forward momentum into upward momentum, by twisting the bike around into a vortex. Almost like creating a virtual ramp ...

I'm guessing he is applying muscle force after the bike is airborne, and probably by virtue of the COG of his body and the bike, he can apply and upward force vector with his muscles. I'm thinking that once the bike is spun into a rotation, centrifiugal force acts to overcome gravity for a while (like a spinning top) - and therefore any upwards force applied by muscles will translate into a vortex. Effectively a virtual ramp ..

This I have to try ... i'm guessing the faster the initial speed the better ...

[nicbordeaux]

"This I have to try ... i'm guessing the faster the initial speed the better ..." (from Greendoor on stunt riding).

RIP Greendoor, we shall miss you.

[DrWhat]

LOL!

[greendoor]

Woohoo!

[JuBragg]

I learnt something from a discussion with a step grand daughter who is into motocross in a big way about controlling the bike in the air, to dip the nose, apply the front brake, to raise it, blip the throttle. Makes sense when you think about it, now how can we apply that to a PM wheel ? :)

[nicbordeaux]

That's quite right, gyroscopics affect balance in a big way. In a wheel you might induce rotation by having a little weight free to rotate when it's supporting arm is arrested or meets resistance. Or by using a slack rope tether which when taught induces movement. The same would apply for stopping rotation or slowing it.

Magnets could do that too, at a cost, but I've seen it written here somewhere that magnets are heresy, and we don't want any PM Torquemada flaming the witches.