You're right, your understand is right, you won't experience "gyroscopic stability." I've done it. You don't. I believe that people who believe otherwise are

You're right, your understand is right, you won't experience "gyroscopic stability." I've done it. You don't. I believe that people who believe otherwise are working on misunderstandings of perceptions. It's nototiously easy to confuse several effects in this. Careful experiments are required with tight controls on error bars, etc. It's easy to be fooled. Eric Laithwaite is a classic and high profile example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Laithwaite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Laithwaite