ORIGINAL: jb.
You can't say you are ignorant if as you say, you have NO experience with bikes. And you are showing no signs of being ignorant, because you have asked about something of which you profess to know nothing about to further your knowledge.
The gyro idea is a good one! However, you've been beaten to the idea as they are used in off road bikes to keep stability over jerky, rough terrain. A video shows this effect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCLlZsiYEps. The gyro is fitted in the rear wheel where it gathers energy from it's forward rotation then stores that energy when you slow down as demonstrated in the video.
Road bikes are a different matter. They do not have a gyro. They maintain their balance through the laws of cycle dynamics. ( as to a lesser extent the off road bikes do.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_dynamics If you wish to avoid horrible mathematic equations like me, then another video might help.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM27f...eature=channel
Best thing to do of course is simply to buy one and have a real giggle learning to brake, turn in, then balance the throttle on the way out of corners and the satisfaction of getting it right
Hope this has helped!
I meant ignorant as in I hardly know the first thing about bikes, though I suspected learning to actually pilot the bike was most of the fun! I forgot to mention that gyros are also used by beginning drifters by starting out with a lot of gain (correction from the gyro) and slowly reducing it until they're making the corrections themselves, so you could install a gyro in a bike and tone it down as you gained experience. I think using a gyro would help a lot with slow speed riding, kinda like when you're riding your bike really slowly and jerking the front wheel around to stay up straight. I think you could also you a heli gyro in an off road bike to enable much quicker acceleration, since it would negate the need for an actual gyroscope in the rear wheel. I read that wiki article a few years ago, and did some other research on bike dynamics. Right now, I'm not sure if it would work best to put the gyro on the vertical or longitudinal (front and back) axis. Anyway, thanks for yer input! It did help.