Finding Your Balance

What allows a bike without a rider to balance itself? Velocity, you might think. Or some gyroscopic effect. The answer eluded scientists for over a century.

Maybe they were looking for a single factor to explain the phenomenon known as self-stability.

Finally, in 2016, English-born American engineer and bicycle nerd Jim Papadopoulos and his colleagues cracked the case. They convincingly debunked existing theories and provided a new explanation for bicycle balance based on the interplay of various factors.

Freddy Mercury: I want to ride my bicycle

Their mathematical insights are invaluable for bicycle builders and address the geometry of the frame, the distribution of mass, and the dynamics of the wheels.

But such intricacies are of little interest to cyclists. All they want is to ride their bicycles without falling off, which is a matter of balance. That's what cyclists want.

What's important to students

And what do language learners really want? They just want to learn how to ride their English language bicycle without falling off.

The One Rule approach shows students the typical pattern of English and helps them find their balance.

Once they find that balance, they may ride any contraption with ease. One Rule, to rule them all.

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