How Motorcycles Corner | EXPLAINED
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2021
- How do motorcycles corner? Like what are the physics behind how much lean angle is needed for a given corner? Why can lighter bikes corner faster? How does counter steering work?
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Every vlogger on youtube: "This is how this works!"
Mike on Bikes: "Well hmmm... This is how it actually works and here is the real physics in numbers. It's really not that complicated you know..."
Me: "Holy F**k. Everything finally makes sense now"
Thank you for making a comeback! Your content is my favorite on UA-cam. I hope everything has been going well for you
Dude, your videos are so good! Thank you for all the work that went into this one. Cheers from Germany!
I love your channel, I'm actually buying a motorcycle and your channel helps me knowing the theory of riding a motorcycle. Please make more videos like this 😁
Honestly, I just wish you published more content. I love everything you put out there. Keep being great.
You point out some facts I never thought about .. I tend to know more about how cars Handle .. Interesting the differance/// between cars and motorcycles..
The one thing I learned at last is "no cornering beyond 45 degree"
The rest i leave it to mathematician or inventor who are going to develope self riding robot later.
Anyway very insightful and detail explanation Mr Mike. I may need to replay this for 100 times to crack it👍👍👍
Good to have you back after those few months! And also with such an interesting topic. You really can't learn enough about cornering
Mike: this is how a motorcycle steers
Neo: hold my spoon
Hey Mike! Explained with swedish precision! Thank you for the analysis, recommenable vid of yours again.
Been a while - happy you are back and enjoying your content as always!
Good to see you back publishing context. Thanks.
Your videos are some of the best on YT.. I’m a better rider because of your content
Seen so many videos trying to understand countersteering, finally i understood after watching it here. Thanks guyz for the excellent presentation 👍. Love from the UAE 🇦🇪.
Can't thank you enough finally my riding is so much faster and safer now.
I've been riding for 25 years and this is the first time I've felt even close to understanding how a motorcycle actually turns. Outstanding.
Great cornering explanation and the formulas to calculate forces are helpful to understand what is actually happening. Thanks!
I felt like I was in a physics lecture.. Great video and has a lot of information.
This is the best explained cornering of a bike, I have seen. This should be in all MC training to get a license. Instead now we have lots of instructors telling people that counter-steering is track riding only. They know noting about how a bike turns, and they are instructors teaching others to ride. No wander so many people die riding a bike, every year. People are not being told the truth. And are being told the wrong ting. It's obvious to see that most of the crashes with bikes are single crash. Going off the road not making the corner.
aero industry and motorcycle have a lot more in common than people know, except no one is trying to fly to the moon in a Husky :)
The yaw, roll and pitch got me. Now I have a different perspective
I only know one common thing.
No one knows how bikes and planes work.
well this is easily the earliest i’ll ever be on one of your videos
Yeah
One of the better treatments on the subject I have seen. Well done
I love your channel Mike! Keep em coming I love videos that go more in depth on how to ride at the limit.
Great to see you back man, your content is always top notch!
This explains everything I have been thinking about recently. Thank you! 😊
Good video mate, it's been such a long time without a video that i started getting worried. Thank you for the good content (as always). :)
As soon as i saw the thumbnail, i immediately understood the concept of counter-steering
THE LEGEND IS BACK
a doctor, a fireman, a teacher, a stepbrother and now a biker? you have my respect man
ah, i see... you're man of culture
Johnny Sins hahaha
I been doing all this for fifty years...naturally. Very cool to "see" it all explained. Thank you.
I have learned soooooo much from Mike about motorcycle physics, that the thumbs up and subscription are just too little to be honest. I mean I knew quite a bit by myself, but Mike explaining it with nowledge he gained from scientific sources makes you understand everything much better. The biggest danger for motocyclists I see, are YT channels, that try to explain motorcycle physics by using simple elementary school physics and then try to explain things like tire grip or motorcycle cornering.
Everytime I am not able to exactly explain something to another rider, or they need to see it or understand it in their head I advise anyone then to the following three channels:
Simon Crafar MotoVudu, Sylvain Guintolis channel and Mike on Bikes! I mean, putting him on par with these two means something, doesn't it?
Thank you Mike for being such a great source for knowledge and technique!
Was just thinking how we haven't seen a video from Mike in a while. Thanks for the upload!
I was dying for newer vids !!! Need more often !
This video provides a better explanation than the vast majority of race track tutorials I have viewed.
This video help me alot in my motorcycle riding specially in cornering. Thanks to you man!
This was the type of explanation I was looking for, thanks!
Phenomenal explication! It is so difficult to discuss this subject with my Harley guys. They argue against the physics, as if my Phat-Boy needs to lean and their Glide doesn’t. The imperceptible weave reminds me of my first submarine cruise. The Boatswain kept tell the Captain how far left or right of track the boat was traversing compared to the plotted intended course. No such thing as a straight line! 2020 Phat-Boy
Great video Mike. This info helps everyone ride more intuitively, so thank you!
Wow, high density information there mate. I'm gonna have to watch this again. I tried to read a book on bicycle physics a few times and realised that I can feel it better than understand it. Maybe understanding will not make for more enjoyment and I'm better off without it for something like this. I'm still enjoying the puzzles though.
I love these videos, thank you for your time.
This exactly what I have been missing. Plus well explained. I have subscribed
Riktigt professionellt. Bra video tack!
Its one of those things that for me was confusing at first but after I learned about it once or twice and rode for another few months or a couple thousand miles and then revisit it it makes more and more sense and I found myself understanding it better as I watched for it or used it in day to day riding when I have the chance.
I always appreciate these videos as they go deep dive on the theory behind what we do. However, I didn't find a video where they explain you to have more confidence on the grip of the tires, on the street. How i can go faster without thinking i'm going to have a lowside for exceeding the lateral forces, eventhough i'm not by far at the 45 degrees limit. The theory is there, smooth on the gas, lean more, load the front tire, etc, we all have read the Twist of the Wrist Volume 2 but i can't really improve my leaning technique with only theory. There must be a way on it, without spending money on courses, or trackdays, just by practicing but with something to rely on, that you can feel. It's easy to feel the grip going away on a car, (understeering) but on a bike, the only feel that you have for lack of grip on the front is the impact with the ground and the expensive visit to the shop :( Maybe some leaning and G gauges that BIP when you are at some % of the limit that could grow your skills by setting the warning higher and higher...
get a small dirt bike and rip around a parking lot, its low stakes cheap and the skills transfer to bigger bikes, you’ll be dragging knee in no time
Very thoughtful video Mike. Thanks for posting !
You and your vids have been much missed!
Finally a new video! Very informative!
Best turnning explanation on UA-cam, top notch!
Awesome video and explanations. Have you considered doing a video on physics of whips?
Thought this was supposed to be “easy to understand” 😂. Just tell people “it works. Try it”
It is very easy to understand. Give it a chance. Process it a bit at a time. Otherwise, maybe you should take up knitting.
@@dan1906 I already knit. I ride motorcycles and I don’t need to understand the physics behind counter steering. It works for me, I know it works and that’s good enough. I’m a software engineer. I don’t go around telling people to understand how code works before posting dumb comments like yours.
@@benorim Software engineer, it figures. Oh the irony of you referring to my comment as dumb, in contrast to the subject of your original comment. Maybe next time ignorance is holding you back, try restarting the motorcycle. That should correct any issues.
I wanted to say that
@@dan1906 You're pretty arrogant aren't ya... I know, I know, my comment is totally unnecessary- and therefore so is yours. When someone says something is hard, telling them its easy literally makes no difference in their life... Just shooting ideas out there but maybe helping him or shutting up is a better solution?
Amazing video Mike! Thank you so much for sharing!
Love your videos especially the physics aspect 👌
Excellent presentation, Mike.
Amazing explained on a very understandable way ! Bravo and thank you
Your videos always snag my attention to them, I must watch😎👍
This is an amazing video. Keep up the great work !!
Awesome video and well explained.. To my view of riding.. Push the handle bars towards the direction u wanna go to make counter steering simple.. Am I right!!
Thanks a lot, author. You explain it very accessible.
Thanks for this tutorials!! And AWESOME collections of motorcycles !! Stay safe
"When we introduce lean into this rotating mass", referring to the steering torque generated by leaning the bike,
is how people can ride bicycles and motorcycles "no hands" - by steering with pressure of their knees against the tank or frame,
causing the lean, and the front wheel to steer towards the lean.
You don't understand. You lean right to turn right, but that causes the front wheel to turn left because the frame moves left when you lean right (equal and opposite force), and the wheel turns left because of gyroscopic precession, which leans the BIKE right, and now you are turning the bike right.
@@DumbledoreMcCracken - See the UA-cam video on MIT freshman Physics 8.01, lecture 24, on Rolling Motion and Gyroscopes:
ua-cam.com/video/XPUuF_dECVI/v-deo.html
For the front wheel rolling forward, a torque exerted by the rider's knees to the right would cause the front wheel to turn to the right.
Using the professor's mnemonic, the wheel's momentum, which points left (using the Right-Hand Rule) follows the torque caused by
the rider's knees - which points forward (again, using the Right-Hand Rule) - and the wheels' momentum vector "follows the torque" vector,
turning the wheel to the right. Note that I didn't say that the rider had to lean to the right - just push his knees to the right, perhaps bending
his body at the hip to do so. Using that mechanism, the rider can control the direction of the front wheel as if he were using his hands.
@@daveinwla6360 already have
@@DumbledoreMcCracken - Then, Dumbledore, you see that while standing (as motorcycle racers do upon victory) and pushing one's knees right, the front wheel turns right. Or while sitting, a rider can press on the right peg and move his knees and hips right, and the torque towards the right causes the front wheel to turn right. Don't try this at low speed, though, as the gyroscopic force needs some rotational speed of the wheel to become apparent.
@@daveinwla6360 make a video.
All I have to go on is about 10k miles of riding a bike, and about 1500 miles riding a motorcycle.
More videos like these please. I learn a lot from these
Thank you for a great explanation and very explanatory graphics! "easy to understand"... once you watch this video many times :D
Well, this refreshed my memory and gave me something more to learn...
i love your videos cause i always learn so much
Wow, lots of great information and a very easily understandable presentation!
Excellent, thanks for the work.
Mike on bikes+supermotos= instant like.
Amazing to see the people that disliked this video are still alive
Finallyyy you are back
As a new rider I really appreciate this video. Thanks
Great video, great explanation, thank you.
This video made me feel like I was actually in a corner. Well done 👏 ✔ 😌
This is the 1st UA-cam video to mention yaw due to change of lean angle (roll rate). Bravo!
But unless one has a degree in physics, no one believes that one. :-(
Wowww, your videoes are absolute amazing
Excellent video.
Nice stable young man ! The cruiser will join the studs eventually... Thanks for the pertinent info as always. Nice to finally understand gut feelings with equations :-)
Just great and usefull explanation... THANKS !
Dude you explained this so well for people who have no concept! Yet, they still have no concept! But why does my KTM 1190 Adventure with 19" front, large wheelbase, 550 lbs and a rake and trail of 26 degree and trail of 4.72, turn on a dime? Compared to Street Triple 401lbs 24.3 degree and 3.75" is it all in my head? LOL You rock!
Congratulations 👏 this is the best and most complete explaination on motorcycle physics !! But u are going too fast and summerizing topics too quickly for viewers, if this video is for just a show off and recall for pros its greats. Thumbs up👍💯👏
But if its for newbis like me who love Motor cycles and have a love for physics it needs more explaining 🙂
Good work 👍
But it has a potential for becoming perfect.. plz explain more, slow down a bit, use easy words and examples.. cuz this video could be a life saver!! And mind opener for many people...
Brilliant video: thanks!
Superb explanation!
Outstanding! As usual.
Thanks a lot, brother!
Really nice bro. Congrats!!
One more helpful video. Thank you so much ☺️
great demonstrations
Exceptional explanation
that was a great explaination, thank you very much
Great Vid. Succinct with great pacing. Keep it highbrow.
Nice video and what a garage! haha Supermotos, dirt bike, adv bike, sportbikes, pitbike.. wonder how you find time to ride each and every one of them! Greetings from Brasil!
easy to understand... nice explaination
Thank you soooo much for using load transfer instead of weight transfer. Weight doesn't transfer unless some mass is moving about the chassis.
This video is a gem! ❤️
Excellent!
Big big Motolove! Love my very own Kawasaki. Always putting up the good stuff like Delta Parole, Metallica, Alice In Chains and others when I am working on her and sometimes even on drive! Moto is life
Very informative video..👍👍👍
Great explanation
Suuuper video like always bro!!! :) :) ;)
Solid content, good popularization
Imagine discovering counter steering, it'd be so confusing and nonsensical
I grew up riding dirt bikes and about three years ago (I had ridden for 12 years at this point) a friend had brought up counter steering and I was completely baffled by the concept even though I had inherently been doing it for years
@@pointlessdegenerates3568 as someone who hasn't been allowed to buy a motorcycle until I move out (although I think I've found a work around, which admittedly will probably take me until I move out to finish) I'm assuming it was a similar feeling to when you think about breathing and have to actively think about doing it for a little bit afterwards
@@pointlessdegenerates3568 That makes all the difference. You grew up with the bikes and the bikes gets bigger while you grew up.
@@pointlessdegenerates3568 jumping onto a motorbike for the first time in my late 30’s and learning a bunch of theory (thanks to videos like this) on countersteering had me boggled a little bit.
Until the first time I got comfortable riding on my own, and then it all come rushing back, the same feeling of riding my BMX’s and Mountain Bikes as a kid!
Countersteering just comes so naturally, it’s the thinking about it part that’s hard 😂
Oh... my boy. Same me. Late 30 and first big bike (don't counting scooter ten years ago). Before buying bike watching videos and wondering about this counter-steering science. Than sit on a bike at motoschool and blink... its same as mountbike I rode 15 years... no science
Thanks Mike!