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Re: maitaining balance on bike in forward motion is easier than at rest

Subject: Re: maitaining balance on bike in forward motion is easier than at rest
From: jöggel rask
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 21:21:12 EDT
Newsgroups: sci.math
I was unable to understand your reasoning, but I do know that the stability you 
experience when riding a bike is due to the fact that the friction force the 
tire feels when you try to turn it is greater then when your standing still. 
The friction corrects the motion of the wheel, in the same way that gravity 
forces a pendulum to oscillate around a line perpendicular to the surface of 
earth. The higher the speed, the higher the force, and shorter the time that 
the correction will take.

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