[JoeFromSidney]

the bicycle with a rider is a human-vehicle system whose dynamic behavior is poorly understood,”

The late John Campbell, former editor of ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION, once wrote that as a physics undergraduate he had been given the problem of solving the differential equations of a bicycle going around a turn. His comment was that he could solve them quicker on a bicycle than he could with pencil and paper.

[Olog-hai]

Did he get government money to build his own bicycle to do so?