Originally Posted by
cyccommute
You mean like how this tire isn't pointed into the turn
As DannoXYZ pointed out, we don't know where in the turn the riders are, nor how tight the turns are. So these pictures don't tell me anything.
Originally Posted by
gregf83
Sorry I prefer not to ride in parking garages.
That's too bad, because you would learn a lot about the physics of two-wheeled vehicles. I have ridden my motorcycle in many parking garages, and used to bicycle commute regularly across a freeway overpass for pedestrians/bikes with a spiral ramp.
These are extended turns with a fixed radius, which are often difficult to find out on the road. If you ever cared to do the experiment, you would find that to ride down them, your wheel doesn't point down the ramp, but instead points at the wall. If I still lived close to that overpass I would take a video.
Originally Posted by
gregf83
I will give you a simple experiment to do however. Next time you go for a ride and have some open road, pretend you are on a slalom course and weave your bike back and forth. When you're carving a left turn have a look at the back portion of your front wheel. It will be on the right side of the downtube, i.e. your wheel will be turned to the left following the turn.
I live in the twisties, and all my roads are a slalom course. I ride bicycles and motorcycles daily on these roads, and I am very familiar with how my bikes turn, thank you.
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