This Space for Rent

The illusion of stability

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The kit bike is generally a very stable machine, but if I sit up and ride no-handed about half the time my pedalling resonates and makes the front end shimmy. It’s not a dangerous shimmy – I stop pedalling, the shimmy stops, and then I can pedal again – but it’s amusing how the light tubing × long TT propagates the flexing from the pedals up to the fork.