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Bicycle are full of fascinating gears, levers, bearings, forces, counter-forces, momentum, inertia, fulcrums, pivots, friction, thrust and other nifty stuff. But we can't do as good a job at explaining it as other people already have. If you want to know more check out these sites:
Exploratorium Science of Cycling Bicycle science: Why and how bikes work.
Analytical Cycling Provides technical methods for evaluating and estimating cycling performance and parameters
Bicycling Science by David Gordon Wilson, MIT Press, 2004. (full of high-powered analysis and lots of other good stuff.)
How Do Bikes Stay Up? by MinutePhysics (video) A fun demonstration of bicycle physics.
Material Science Engineering and the Bicycle
Seven Crazy Bikes You Have to See to Believe (video)
Bike Frame Buying, Building and Metallurgy
Physics of a Riderless Bicycle (link to academic paper)
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