[V8] Vespa???

[Unka Bart]

On Sep 22, 2005, at 9:22 AM, dsaad at icehouse.net wrote:

[snippage happens in the best of families...]

> A 200cc Vespa actually "scoots" along pretty well, and they only weigh 
> 250Lbs

And they have wheels of about 10-12" diameter.

Much (most) of the stability of a motorcycle comes from the gyroscopic 
action of the wheels, a product of their mass and radius.

The derivation of the point of these observations is left as an 
exercise for the student...

Yer kindly ol' Unka Bart loves ya.