A bicycle that doesn’t fall down

A bicycle is an efficient, environmentally friendly transport that anyone can handle. Unfortunately, the innate skills of balancing on two wheels in humans are absent, so children fill, sometimes, a lot of bumps until they learn to confidently hold on to the saddle. The Jyrobike children's bike helps to cope with difficulties. Due to the presence of elements of the gyroscope, it is quite difficult to overturn it.

At first glance, the Jyrobike is a regular bicycle. But if you push him off the slide, as he himself without assistance goes down and (oh miracle!) does not fall, maintaining a vertical position. The secret is the presence of a rapidly rotating disk inside the front wheel. The untwisted flywheel, using the effect of a gyroscope, automatically balances a small bike if it begins to heel.

For children, this is a great way to get the first experience of riding without bruises and abrasions. The Jyrobike will not fall, but will adjust when an inept driver leans too hard.

It would seem that the gyroscopic effect only interferes with learning, because the whole point is to learn to avoid falls by adjusting the balance with your own body, and not with the help of a flywheel.

“We designed it so that the bike does half the work,” says Jyrobike CEO Robert Bodill. Teaching wheels keep the balance, but when you take them off, the child falls, acquiring bad habits. We found a middle ground to ensure maximum stability and to give the child the confidence that, in fact, half of the success of learning to ride.”

The wheel-gyroscope has three different settings. The support it provides can be gradually reduced as experience accumulates. Eventually, the flywheel can be turned off completely.



Any study should be interesting for a child, otherwise there is little use for compulsory classes. The developers of the bicycle tried to diversify the classes and make them more fun, equipping the wheel with several preset sound signals, for example, the sound of a horn or a dinosaur. “Fun is another way to build trust,” says Baudill. If children like what they’re doing, they’ll tend to want to do it again and do it with more energy, enthusiasm and motivation.

The company plans to release an adult version in the future, designed mainly for the elderly and people with disabilities who find it difficult to keep a balance while sitting in a bicycle saddle. “We’re going to use an algorithm to determine the behavior of the rider,” says Bodill. An adult swings more or less depending on speed, ability, and height, and Jyrobike will automatically compensate until the position stabilizes.



Source: facepla.net