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Thinking about it another way maybe makes more sense- if your view was aligned with the bicycle's and you were rolling around a corner, you would seem to be traveling uphill (as your are traversing a curved path). Traveling uphill on a flat surface would also induce a vertical acceleration.

The vertical acceleration would be seen from the bike's reference frame. If there was only lateral force (on the world frame) when the bike is leaned over and it is accelerating laterally, transferring that force to the bike's frame of reference would introduce a vertical component. Thus the...

Homework Statement Let's say that there is a bicycle traveling forward and we only see it from behind. As it rolls to turn, it induces some accelerations. If we were to measure those accelerations on the bicycle frame itself, we would see a Lateral Acceleration (lets call it Aym) and and a...