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Adrian Baker
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The forces acting on a cornering motorcyle are pretty complicated - particularly so the mechanism of counter steering whereby you turn the front wheel the opposite way to the one you wish to travel in (and vice versa when you want it to sit up).
However, when the bike is STABLE in a long sweeping bend with no change in speed or lean angle, what forces are then acting to keep it in its circular path?
The front wheel here has little (no?) effect whatsoever I think, as, if the road drops away, and you have the throttle well open, the bike continues in a curved path, quite happily, with the front wheel off the ground.
However, when the bike is STABLE in a long sweeping bend with no change in speed or lean angle, what forces are then acting to keep it in its circular path?
The front wheel here has little (no?) effect whatsoever I think, as, if the road drops away, and you have the throttle well open, the bike continues in a curved path, quite happily, with the front wheel off the ground.