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Minute Physics Video: How exactly does a bicycle stay upright?

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Very cool, yet still a bit of a mystery. Check out one of their reference videos, a TEDx talk, below…
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Antipodean_G
Antipodean_G
10 years ago

IT’s probably worth looking at this recent study into 2 wheel dynamics, as the findings go against a lot, if not most, of the long held theories in regards to the dynamics involved (there are a few different articles etc. into this same study but this one was easy to find):

http://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/sports/a6602/physics-of-a-riderless-bike/

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anonymous
anonymous
10 years ago

That “bike” was featured in the video, and does the same corrections all these other things do. Fall to the right, steer to the right.

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bikeduder
bikeduder
10 years ago

Wait, ghost riders aren’t real?

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