Print Email Facebook Twitter Does pedalling on a recumbent bicycle influence the cyclist’s steering behaviour? Title Does pedalling on a recumbent bicycle influence the cyclist’s steering behaviour? Author Boon, K.M. Klap, P. Van Lanen, J.A. Letsoin, G.J. Jansen, A.J. Faculty Industrial Design Engineering Department Design Engineering Date 2014-07-14 Abstract The paper presents the answer to the question how pedalling on a specific recumbent bicycle, such as the VeloX3, influences a cyclist’s ability to steer the bicycle. The research aims to find the correlation between pedalling and the undesired steering movements it creates. To test this assumption a test setup was constructed. On this setup cyclists were asked to perform in a high intensity Wingate test. A load-cell was used to measure the amount of force exerted by the cyclist on the handlebar while cycling. An ergometer integrated in the setup was used to measure power output and cadence of the cyclist. When comparing the cadence results with the oscillation of the measured forces on the load-cell, a distinct coherence was noticed. The forces measured have magnitudes reaching up to 400N. The combination of the oscillations due to pedalling and the magnitude of the forces will result in disturbances of the steering behaviour on a recumbent bicycle. Subject recumbentbicyclehuman controlhandlebarpedallingcadencesteeringWingate To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:79813eaa-8069-4baa-a5a4-cb2a4fb4f4c1 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2014.06.112 Publisher Elsevier ISSN 1877-7058 Source Procedia Engineering, 72, 2014; The 2014 Conference of the International Sports Engineering Association, Sheffield, UK, 14-17 July 2014 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2014 ElsevierThis is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license Files PDF 307436.pdf 487.48 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:79813eaa-8069-4baa-a5a4-cb2a4fb4f4c1/datastream/OBJ/view