Originally Posted by doctorSpoc
has to be primarily the gyroscopic affect... it's harder to keep a bike upright the slower you go... and you wouldn't be able to keep upright on rollers if it were due to forward momenum.. since you are not going anywhere on rollers.
But you are going somewhere on rollers! (at least from the bike's standpoint).
And in fact, if what you say were true and the gyroscopic effect were the principle stabilizer of a bike w/ spinning wheels, then riding rollers should be no harder than riding on pavement (which is not the case).