Gyrobike: New wheel replaces stabilisers
Inventors have created a high-tech bicycle wheel which helps teach children how to ride and removes the need for training wheel or stabilisers.The Gyrowheel uses a uses a gyroscope to ensure it always remains upright and automatically adjusts to balance even the most wobbly rider.
It works because it has a spinning disk inside which creates a force – "gyroscopic precession" if you want to get technical – that acts to stabilise the bike.
When turned on, the wheel keeps a two-wheeled bike upright, even at very low speeds. Parents can then reduce the gyroscopic force as the child learns to balance.
Makers say they tested it with over 100 kids who all used it to learn how to ride… do children still ride bikes? We thought they just played computer games now.
The company say they will have 12” and 16” Gyrowheels available in the UK before the end of next year.
A spokesperson for Gyrobike added: "Gyrowheel is the only product of its kind. It will change how people learn to ride bikes. It adds stability to bicycles, particularly when traveling at slow speed.
"Gyrowheel, revolutionizes how children can learn to ride a bike and renders training wheels obsolete. It senses unbalanced biking and re-centers the bike underneath the rider’s weight at the point when tipping starts to occur."
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