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Originally Posted by Zeke
If the bike's wheels were spinning fairly fast, would that create a beneficial gyroscope effect?
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I don't think so. I'm not an aerospace engineer nor a physicist, but I would think that gyros big enough to produce a noticeable effect would not produce a
beneficial effect. I suspect it would make handling counter-intuitive since the airbike theoretically has three axes of rotation (as opposed to a bicycle with only one).
Gyros (or motion sensors) in modern systems are used to detect attitude changes not resulting from user input, which are then fed back into the control system to make corrections. You don't need big gyros for this.