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Old 08-25-23 | 02:11 PM
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Originally Posted by SkinGriz
It doesn’t matter.

A bike or motorcycle has one gyro in front and one in back. The one in front is roughly in line with the steering axis. These gyroscopes are also the wheels and tires that contact the ground.

Any machine that matches the above description for wheel arrangement will steer the same way, initiating a turn with counter steering.

The machine you posted has three three contact patches. In geometry how many points make a plane? How many points make a line? The machine you posted is irrelevant to bicycles.




^ The above motorcycle probably also does not lean or counter steer to turn at very low speeds. I’ll let you think about why.
I'm no longer sure what your argument is - that motorcycle and bicycles don't use the same physics? Or that they do? Or that the only way that two wheeled vehicles steer is via counter steering?
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To be clear, I'll restate my position - at slow speeds, two wheeled vehicles can sometimes steer by turning in the direction of travel but beyond walking speeds steering is accomplished via counter steering.

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