[ODE] Re: Simulating Wheels

[Adam Moravanszky [Novodex]]

> > The advantage is that its significantly easier to obtain all the
> > measurements needed for something like that than for a car, because
> > you can completely take them apart and weigh all the pieces (including
> > the body parts of the rider) [....]
>
> How do you get the rider's body parts reattached after weighing?
>

Well, since the rider will end up with a perfect virtual bicycle, he should
be quite fine without the added overhead of real limbs.  Seriously, unless
you care to have the exact numbers for a certain person, there are
biomechanics references that you can get from your uni library with all the
measurements you need -- presumably from cadavers where reattachment wasn't
an issue either.  :-)

--  Adam