Just in case you are really interested, this section has some really neat concepts.
Watch a bike ‘ghost riding’, with perturbation. Ever wonder why? Gyroscopic effects? Wheel trail? Geometry? Check out this TED talk.
Ever wonder how a differential works?
Five-Bar Linkage Model of the Bicycle-Rider System from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project by Erik Mahieu
5-bar linkage model of bicycle rider.
Courtesy of the Wolfram Demonstrations Project
(Trouble? Download and install the Wolfram CDF player here. We use it a lot, and it does some really cool stuff.