thats because he don't have big enough cajones to ride a gixxer to its fullest capabilities! thats why he has a fanboi love afair with a little yamaha R6 thats almost 20 years old ... 🤣🤣🤣 / jk bro.. we know you can ride 😁 and you do actually like gixxers 👍
This is a great explanation except for one factor. Motorcycles and bikes dont stay up because of gyroscopic forces. The force exists but its not strong enoigh to hold a bike up frok falling left or right. The stability of a bike comes from the angled steering axis. The wheel contact patch is behind the axis of rotation so if the bike falls right the front wheel rotates slightly and causes the bike to right itself. If you put a bike on a pin and spin both of the wheels at riding speed it wont balance, but the self righting nature of the steering axis will keep the bike up
Finally someone that knows, UA-camrs need to stop spreading myths like “gyros keep the bike upright” or “Bigger contact patch means more grip” and etc without doing any research. People are to soon to repeat what they hear and that is how misinformation spreads
@@Tactech-tc1pe No no i dont think adobo is spreading misinformation on purpose. He knows what hes talking about. He just has a gap in knowledge about the self righting physycs of bikes and instead attributes it to gyroscopic forces. Everything else he sai was fully correct he just attributed one effect to the wrong physical property. His advice is still good and it still works. Nothing he said will make you crash or anything. Its just one thing that he mis attributes
@@apollo1305 I’m not insinuating that he was passing incorrect information on purpose, just that he didn’t fact check the physics behind what he was talking about. I agree his tips on techniques are good and sound, he just didn’t get the why part of it right.
The reason why higher speeds are more stable is because spinning objects have gyroscopic rigidity, which makes them not want to change the plane they are currently spinning in. The centrifugal effect is not a force that fights against gravity but rather what happens to mass as you spin it around an axis. There is a force that is exerted against your tires as they spin as well against you as you turn, but that is called a centripetal force and it is constantly pointing toward the center by which you are rotating, not outwards. Also the speed the tire is rotating is not thrust it’s angular velocity, and gyroscopic procession is what happens when you leave a gyroscopic spinning in midair where gravity tries to pull it down but the rigidity of the gyroscope keeps it up, making the entire thing “process” or turn in a circle.
can you pleas explain to me then why people tip the steering wheel to the left (kickstand side) when parking? whats the physics behind that? please help me out understanding that
@@RippyR because that’s the natural position when it’s leaned over. You countersteer to initiate the lean, then once you’re leaned, your front tire turns into the turn.
Thanks. I've not been riding for 8 years. I had a pretty serious crash due to exhaustion. Finally, I got the courage to return. These videos help to remember the essentials. Thanks again.
As a new rider, this is the absolute best explanation I’ve found on countersteering. I needed the physics nerd in my be to satisfied in order to understand.
The physics nerd in you should also have caught on that centrifugal force doesn’t exist and was invented for movies to sound clever. The ‘centrifugal’ force is actually a negative centripetal force. Thank you for attending my lecture.
Centrifugal is a misnomer for the radial component of the acceleration created from friction. Centripetal force is term for the same idea. Neither is an actual force or a valid description of the free body or a component of its motion profile. Gravity is pushing you down, angular acceleration from the change in momentum is pushing you out, and the frictional component from your tires is counteracting both. Theres no imaginary force pulling you in. But you dont need to know that, I don't know why I typed this.
I still remember the day I learnt off counter steer... I thought someone was having me on.... tried it and blew my mind!! I could take corners faster and harder effortlessly!!!
For those who need a better explanation of gyroscopic precession look at helicopters the pitch of the blades is activated 90° to the direction of travel
It’s centripetal force, not centrifugal. The thing that pulls our wheels towards the center of the turn/curve. The same force that causes your bike to flip (high side) when that force is too much.
I was always told that in order to turn on a motorcycle, all you how to do is look in the direction you want to go, and the bike automatically goes there. Kinda like magic🎉
i’ve rode hondas and a ninja and honestly the gixxer was the one that i liked best. i used to be like those gixxer jokes never in a million years did i think i’d own a gixxer but i like this bike better than all the others
I just started riding recently and was scared to take corners at a decent speed but once learning counter steering its changed my riding and made it much more comfortable and enjoyable
Much better analogy & demonstration than the used 200 section rear (not Gixxer size) launched in the classroom at a Police riding class here in the UK. Shame all officers are not as good humoured as motorcycle cops in my experience
I am not pretending to know more than this guy BUT when I was taking my motorcycle course, the instructors told us that you press DOWN in a turn at speed, not press FORWARD. It’s simply because of your posture on the bike that it feels more like pushing forward than it does pushing down.
The way my MSF teacher taught me to preform the counter steering is by making me pretend like I am giving someone a fist bump and the motorcycle started tilting.
First... i learn english only from MMORPG then i can say sorry for my write ... I start with 250cc Honda (2 year) switch to 600cc Yamaha(1 year) After that all 3 year i learn for Counter Sterring...... Now i have 2 bike (Z1000 2009y) (K2 2017y) it's different bikes... but this work on all very well ! Try get free time for test this in any safe parking *if u have this ... .but in my mind after total 14 year drive bike.. this is realy good key for learn how to drive bike fine ! :) GL & HF .
True story. Imagine riding for 40 years and having the muscle memory to do this subconsciously. Only tv be mind blown when you go try what instinctively sounds absurd. But my man here isn’t wrong. And learned some new stuff too. What started the rabbit hole dig? A 1/8th scale nitro methane R/C motorcycle that does this to such an exaggerated degree of awkwardness I had to figure out WTF was going on! Go on and search tiger 1/8 scale RC motorcycle - or Kyosho RC motorcycle. Watch the steering do what seems odd. You only turn right to go right at VERY SLOW speeds. Then you actually turn opposite to go direction you want. But *ONLY to initiate turn. 👈 Important detail I hadn’t yet been learned on properly. Thanks Adobo Moto! Keep the rubba side down!
Push right you’ll go right - also (and I figured this out by messing around trying different shit one day) if you actually pull the right grip toward you, or try and turn the handle bars right, it will make you go left, It’s actually very useful if you need swerve very abruptly, but you gotta be light wit it..If ya turn handlebars too much you’ll crash. If your taking a sharp right turn and feel like you can’t make it enough with just pushing right, maybe pull on the left and it will make you get a little more turn..just try it next time your out and you’ll see what I mean
Man I have a lot of other bikers and even physicist I watched explained this but I don't understand it. That gyroscope thingy and that cup example really cleared it.
If you push left the bike will go right And if you push right bike will go left this is used for sudden pot holes or if suddenly someone comes in font of you to quickly change directions So if you push left while leaning the bike will try to go right be careful with that
The gyroscopic effect doesn’t really affect the stability of the bike it’s the position of the steering columns that makes it keep itself upright while moving forwards
When you lean you dont need to turn bars. And sometimes would be worse. And you can also see when the bike is stationary when you turn the bars the bike leans the opposite way. And yet using big words to impress people to make yourself sound like a pro wont work. The reason counter steering works is becuase you increase the drag of the tyre on one side. Also the geometry of the bars to forks to wheels also helps, normally reffered to as "Rake" helps most bikes be more manoeuvrable. The less rake the better the turn, hence why sports bike are used in GP rather than a chopper. But still good points were made.
I have to disagree with nearly everything he said. Yes you do push left to go left and vice versa but that is just to initiate a lean so pushing your contact patch to the right of you to go left and so on. Giyroscopic forces have a minor effect and a cup rolls around a corner cos of the different radii of the top to the base, nothing to do with motorbike tyres.
Still not sure to do counter steering on bike as opposed to do it for drifting in a car. Can you do more videos on this? Perhaps a tutorial while riding on a bike
Countersteering, despite what some people believe, is the ONLY way to get a motorcycle to lean. Also, getting the two gyroscopes pointing in different directions creates instability, causing them to lean the opposite way. Also, centrifugal force is a misnomer. It doesn’t exist. It’s a by product of centripetal force and the frame of reference you have.
Yeah I am beginning to think people don't ride bikes anymore. Alot of the new riders are from the generation of being inside all the time on video games and computers.
You can think of a bike traveling in a straight line as being in equilibrium ie., balance, where the tires are in line below the center of gravity. When you steer left, the front wheel moves left earlier than the center of gravity, causing a fall to the right. When that fall has tipped over far enough to reach a desired lean angle the rider can return the handlebar toward the right, until reaching a new equilibrium, where the bike's center of gravity is falling just as fast as it's front wheel is steering back in line beneath. The interplay between balancing upright and falling over (leaning) is how we steer, and that steering is always initiated by taking the front wheel to the opposite side we want to lean.
Leaning gets especially fun with a super-light bike in a windy area. I'll be going in a straight line with the bike leaned over like I'm turning at the track! Seems to scare the drivers around me for some reason . . ..
I like most of your videos bro. But I don't usually push forward on the left grip to go left. and right to go right. it's just some people will take literally but always good advice 👍🏁😜🇭🇲
Frictional force = (frictional coefficient)*(normal reaction) . Frictional coefficient depends only on the materials in contact, not surface area. Hence, Frictional force is same for a moving smaller contact patch and a larger contact patch as long as the rubber or weight (normal reaction) are not different/changing.
Nice video, but no, gyroscopic forces have nothing to do with it. Someone once built a bicycle with a counter-rotating wheel next to the front wheel to cancel out all the gyro forces. The bike worked fine. Countersteering is how you initiate the lean for your upcoming turn. You are going to want to be leaning into the turn while you turn, so you twitch the wrong way to start falling over. When you are tilted over just right, you adjust the steer to carve the turn. At low speed, the timing of the countersteering/balance is wrong, so it's hard to ride. Gyro forces or the lack thereof are not the problem. A wheel will keep itself upright if you roll it all by itself. Tire profile is important since a wider tire takes more effort to keep balanced. When you lean into a turn, the weight of the bike has to be over a contact patch that is an inch or so off the centerline. Most of us stick a knee toward the center of the turn to shift our weight over the new balance points.
Disagree imo but can see some of your points. I’d recommending watching the Tom Scott video where he rides a push bike and they explain how you turn. It’s less about turning the bike, more about moving the bike from underneath you. The counter steer moves the bike from under you to the outside of the corner and this establishes the lean.
Simply The Center of the wheel has a longer circumference than the edge, and since they make the same number of revolutions at the same time, you can think of the Center as moving ahead of the edge
This is the One guy 2 cups video i wanted to see
Lmfaoooooo 😂😂😂
Great video, great comment 😅
gixxer ahh comment
Hahahahahahahahaha
Bro is relentless with the gixxr jokes💀
I always wondered why, but in one video he says something about the build quality and the perfect boot to go with a gixxr has some pop out wheels
I think he's ex boyfriend had one
Yes. but maybe he want to notice by the gixxer company😂
thats because he don't have big enough cajones to ride a gixxer to its fullest capabilities! thats why he has a fanboi love afair with a little yamaha R6 thats almost 20 years old ... 🤣🤣🤣
/ jk bro.. we know you can ride 😁 and you do actually like gixxers 👍
He is like a father to all of us young motoheads. Keep supporting him fam💟
Yeah if you've got no one else to learn from then he's like okay ig
Naw he’s a joke lol look up some other older vids there better people out there, like this video bruh that an axle not 2
Don’t let a physics teacher catch you saying centrifugal force
Ever since I took physics I can’t stop noticing this
Centrifugal force is referred to as a fictitious, apparent or pseudo force. lol
Love that gixxr cycle 😂😂
Me too and want a gixer
Me too and want a gixer
The cup principle furthered my understanding of the concept. Cool. Thank you.
This is by far the most simple and understandable demonstration of countersteer. Kudos
Dang that new gixer you have is making your Aprilia look downright silly. Gotta love the changes Suzuki made 😂
This is a great explanation except for one factor. Motorcycles and bikes dont stay up because of gyroscopic forces. The force exists but its not strong enoigh to hold a bike up frok falling left or right. The stability of a bike comes from the angled steering axis. The wheel contact patch is behind the axis of rotation so if the bike falls right the front wheel rotates slightly and causes the bike to right itself. If you put a bike on a pin and spin both of the wheels at riding speed it wont balance, but the self righting nature of the steering axis will keep the bike up
Finally someone that knows, UA-camrs need to stop spreading myths like “gyros keep the bike upright” or “Bigger contact patch means more grip” and etc without doing any research.
People are to soon to repeat what they hear and that is how misinformation spreads
@@Tactech-tc1pe No no i dont think adobo is spreading misinformation on purpose. He knows what hes talking about. He just has a gap in knowledge about the self righting physycs of bikes and instead attributes it to gyroscopic forces. Everything else he sai was fully correct he just attributed one effect to the wrong physical property. His advice is still good and it still works. Nothing he said will make you crash or anything. Its just one thing that he mis attributes
@@apollo1305 I’m not insinuating that he was passing incorrect information on purpose, just that he didn’t fact check the physics behind what he was talking about.
I agree his tips on techniques are good and sound, he just didn’t get the why part of it right.
I was looking for such a comment so I don't have to write it on my own. Thanks 🙏 😅
i dont understand but take my like
The reason why higher speeds are more stable is because spinning objects have gyroscopic rigidity, which makes them not want to change the plane they are currently spinning in. The centrifugal effect is not a force that fights against gravity but rather what happens to mass as you spin it around an axis. There is a force that is exerted against your tires as they spin as well against you as you turn, but that is called a centripetal force and it is constantly pointing toward the center by which you are rotating, not outwards. Also the speed the tire is rotating is not thrust it’s angular velocity, and gyroscopic procession is what happens when you leave a gyroscopic spinning in midair where gravity tries to pull it down but the rigidity of the gyroscope keeps it up, making the entire thing “process” or turn in a circle.
Centrifugal force doesn’t exist. It’s a misnomer.
Those forces do play a part but it's mostly caster from the front wheel.
can you pleas explain to me then why people tip the steering wheel to the left (kickstand side) when parking? whats the physics behind that? please help me out understanding that
@@RippyR because that’s the natural position when it’s leaned over. You countersteer to initiate the lean, then once you’re leaned, your front tire turns into the turn.
@@RippyRit is because the left brain works faster than the right
❤ this video made it easier for me to understand counter steering
mans never fail to roast gixxr💀
Great advice. Maybe you can make a video explaining how to "hang off" or body position after you done counter steering...
Just remember you move your body _before_ countersteering or you may have a bad time
Using the cups to demonstrate steering direction was brilliant!
Thanks. I've not been riding for 8 years. I had a pretty serious crash due to exhaustion. Finally, I got the courage to return. These videos help to remember the essentials. Thanks again.
Always tried explaining the reverse steering on motorcycles to plp and they never believed me. Finally someone who actually understands
There's no centrifugal force, only centripetal force acting along the radius of curvature. All hail centripetal force🙌
As a new rider, this is the absolute best explanation I’ve found on countersteering. I needed the physics nerd in my be to satisfied in order to understand.
The physics nerd in you should also have caught on that centrifugal force doesn’t exist and was invented for movies to sound clever. The ‘centrifugal’ force is actually a negative centripetal force.
Thank you for attending my lecture.
@@disboiisbad9039 the fictitious centrifugal force is inertia wanting to continue in a straight line in the presence of a centripetal force.
I like watching your videos funny and straight to the point 😂
Very well explained 😊awesome
The cup demonstration was actually very helpful, I didn't understand counter steering until I saw that.
Centrifugal is a misnomer for the radial component of the acceleration created from friction. Centripetal force is term for the same idea. Neither is an actual force or a valid description of the free body or a component of its motion profile. Gravity is pushing you down, angular acceleration from the change in momentum is pushing you out, and the frictional component from your tires is counteracting both. Theres no imaginary force pulling you in. But you dont need to know that, I don't know why I typed this.
I'm no motor enthusiast... yet, but I'm following this and learning just incase I find it appealing to learn more
Good explanation push the side you want to go in direction your words make much brain sense yes
Super interesting! Thanks.
Correction: centripetal force
In circular path,
Centripetal is a force pulling inside
Centrifugal is a force pushing outside
had to subscribe. this is the second video I've seen. this is the *absolute BEST* counter-steer .....the cups!, man!!
I still remember the day I learnt off counter steer... I thought someone was having me on.... tried it and blew my mind!! I could take corners faster and harder effortlessly!!!
You never rode a bicycle before you rode a motorcycle?
@@kwak1k used to at early age, to get from home to school and vice versa
For those who need a better explanation of gyroscopic precession look at helicopters the pitch of the blades is activated 90° to the direction of travel
It’s centripetal force, not centrifugal. The thing that pulls our wheels towards the center of the turn/curve.
The same force that causes your bike to flip (high side) when that force is too much.
You got me confused when said you push forward I never thought of how I steer in a bike till today always has been natural to me
It's a subject that is way over explained. Just f'kin ride😂
I was always told that in order to turn on a motorcycle, all you how to do is look in the direction you want to go, and the bike automatically goes there. Kinda like magic🎉
Very clear explainnation.TQ
Using the cups for visuals was GENIUS. I knew how it worked, now I know why it works
Centrifusial. And this was a science lesson? Amazing.
i’ve rode hondas and a ninja and honestly the gixxer was the one that i liked best. i used to be like those gixxer jokes never in a million years did i think i’d own a gixxer but i like this bike better than all the others
Try spinning a bicycle wheel. When you try to turn, it "lags" so the force applied is moved ahead. Up/down becomes left/right
funniest gixxer joke yet!! 😅😄😃🤣
Probably one of the best loops I’ve seen from you
I don't care what anyone wants to ride, but your gixxer jokes are funny.
I just started riding recently and was scared to take corners at a decent speed but once learning counter steering its changed my riding and made it much more comfortable and enjoyable
I understand countersteering is a thing and how to use it, but I never knew WHY it works, past "wheel go fast and make more stable." This is fire.
Much better analogy & demonstration than the used 200 section rear (not Gixxer size) launched in the classroom at a Police riding class here in the UK. Shame all officers are not as good humoured as motorcycle cops in my experience
I am not pretending to know more than this guy BUT when I was taking my motorcycle course, the instructors told us that you press DOWN in a turn at speed, not press FORWARD. It’s simply because of your posture on the bike that it feels more like pushing forward than it does pushing down.
change instructor
The way my MSF teacher taught me to preform the counter steering is by making me pretend like I am giving someone a fist bump and the motorcycle started tilting.
finally a video I can show to my friends on why I turn by leaning
GIXER 😂I WANT A BICYCLE 🚲 NOW 🤣❗️
First... i learn english only from MMORPG then i can say sorry for my write ...
I start with 250cc Honda (2 year) switch to 600cc Yamaha(1 year) After that all 3 year i learn for Counter Sterring...... Now i have 2 bike (Z1000 2009y) (K2 2017y) it's different bikes... but this work on all very well ! Try get free time for test this in any safe parking *if u have this ... .but in my mind after total 14 year drive bike.. this is realy good key for learn how to drive bike fine ! :) GL & HF .
True story. Imagine riding for 40 years and having the muscle memory to do this subconsciously. Only tv be mind blown when you go try what instinctively sounds absurd. But my man here isn’t wrong. And learned some new stuff too. What started the rabbit hole dig? A 1/8th scale nitro methane R/C motorcycle that does this to such an exaggerated degree of awkwardness I had to figure out WTF was going on! Go on and search tiger 1/8 scale RC motorcycle - or Kyosho RC motorcycle. Watch the steering do what seems odd. You only turn right to go right at VERY SLOW speeds. Then you actually turn opposite to go direction you want. But *ONLY to initiate turn. 👈 Important detail I hadn’t yet been learned on properly. Thanks Adobo Moto! Keep the rubba side down!
Thanks for sharing that that's awesome I love learning stuff
you sir are my truly amazing!!! much respect for all the valuable informations .
Push right you’ll go right - also (and I figured this out by messing around trying different shit one day) if you actually pull the right grip toward you, or try and turn the handle bars right, it will make you go left, It’s actually very useful if you need swerve very abruptly, but you gotta be light wit it..If ya turn handlebars too much you’ll crash. If your taking a sharp right turn and feel like you can’t make it enough with just pushing right, maybe pull on the left and it will make you get a little more turn..just try it next time your out and you’ll see what I mean
Man I have a lot of other bikers and even physicist I watched explained this but I don't understand it. That gyroscope thingy and that cup example really cleared it.
By far the best explanation ever of how this works
🤔 gyro centrifugal scopic counter axle balancing lateral steer axis. GOT IT! 😎
Hahahaha Gixxr 😂 I'm dead bro 💀💀💀
I love u man …. Thank you so much for the great videos
Counter steer comes so naturally that I get confused when people explain it
If you push left the bike will go right
And if you push right bike will go left this is used for sudden pot holes or if suddenly someone comes in font of you to quickly change directions
So if you push left while leaning the bike will try to go right be careful with that
I’m dead with the gixxr jokes 😂
The way he says centrifugal makes me think he just read an online explanation of this concept 5 minutes before filming the video
The gyroscopic effect doesn’t really affect the stability of the bike it’s the position of the steering columns that makes it keep itself upright while moving forwards
Yup. Leaning doesn't use gyroscopic precession to turn. It's gravity. Gravity and stability makes you turn. The video is just false.
When you lean you dont need to turn bars. And sometimes would be worse.
And you can also see when the bike is stationary when you turn the bars the bike leans the opposite way. And yet using big words to impress people to make yourself sound like a pro wont work.
The reason counter steering works is becuase you increase the drag of the tyre on one side. Also the geometry of the bars to forks to wheels also helps, normally reffered to as "Rake" helps most bikes be more manoeuvrable. The less rake the better the turn, hence why sports bike are used in GP rather than a chopper.
But still good points were made.
The science with crushing speed turns is crazy
I have to disagree with nearly everything he said.
Yes you do push left to go left and vice versa but that is just to initiate a lean so pushing your contact patch to the right of you to go left and so on.
Giyroscopic forces have a minor effect and a cup rolls around a corner cos of the different radii of the top to the base, nothing to do with motorbike tyres.
Your videos are the best! I appreciate you posting
He doesn't leave a chance to roast Gixxer guys 😂
Bro thank you!!! This was a great video!
Perfect loop. It was almost as good as your centrifugal force explanation
Still not sure to do counter steering on bike as opposed to do it for drifting in a car. Can you do more videos on this? Perhaps a tutorial while riding on a bike
Pinoy content na may content talaga💪💪💪
Countersteering, despite what some people believe, is the ONLY way to get a motorcycle to lean. Also, getting the two gyroscopes pointing in different directions creates instability, causing them to lean the opposite way. Also, centrifugal force is a misnomer. It doesn’t exist. It’s a by product of centripetal force and the frame of reference you have.
Not the only way
@@crusoeart2951 it is absolutely, 100% the only way.
@@crusoeart2951 I have the hayden laguna Corsair x, too. Lol. You’re the only person I’ve ever seen that has it, as well.
@@crusoeart2951 The only other way is to crash
Adobomoto
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Now can I get pin? please 🙏
Did you just summon him!?
@@GeauxRillayup, he summoned Beetlejuice.
Hahaha kahit ano paliwanag mo mga obob Ang mga Americano magaling lang Yan manakop at manglait
Best physics lesson EVER 😅
🤜🤛
"Turn right to go left!! Thanks doc, that makes perfect sense"
If you know how to ride a bicycle youre probably already doing this without even realizing it. Feels super natural.
Yeah I am beginning to think people don't ride bikes anymore. Alot of the new riders are from the generation of being inside all the time on video games and computers.
You can think of a bike traveling in a straight line as being in equilibrium ie., balance, where the tires are in line below the center of gravity. When you steer left, the front wheel moves left earlier than the center of gravity, causing a fall to the right. When that fall has tipped over far enough to reach a desired lean angle the rider can return the handlebar toward the right, until reaching a new equilibrium, where the bike's center of gravity is falling just as fast as it's front wheel is steering back in line beneath. The interplay between balancing upright and falling over (leaning) is how we steer, and that steering is always initiated by taking the front wheel to the opposite side we want to lean.
You really have to put that "gixxr" plate.😂
Damn bro using actual physics terminology correctly and saying the words correctly amazing!
Centripetal force is the correct term so no
This guy just explained mechanics better than my highschool teacher ❤😂
Gixxer looks sick
I was trying to explain this to my mom because I love to talk about motorcycles with her and she thought it was complete bullshit for a while lol
Actually you push left to go right and Vice versa. Sit on your bike and try it, it’s trippy.
Leaning gets especially fun with a super-light bike in a windy area. I'll be going in a straight line with the bike leaned over like I'm turning at the track!
Seems to scare the drivers around me for some reason . . ..
Yeah, but you can tilt the bike left or right but continue to drive in a straight line.
"To turn one must make the bike fall, but only slightly" -some guy probably
"I want a bike" *slaps self* "you need a bike" 😂
Dude really mocking Gixxer 🤣🤣
Random dude: nice bike, man!
This guy:
It’s because of the steering geometry, because your forks are angled forward
I like most of your videos bro.
But I don't usually push forward on the left grip to go left. and right to go right.
it's just some people will take literally but always good advice 👍🏁😜🇭🇲
Frictional force = (frictional coefficient)*(normal reaction) . Frictional coefficient depends only on the materials in contact, not surface area. Hence, Frictional force is same for a moving smaller contact patch and a larger contact patch as long as the rubber or weight (normal reaction) are not different/changing.
Thats the cleanest gixxer I've seen in a hot minute
man says it is my front wheel but certainly shows HIS BACK wheel
Nice video, but no, gyroscopic forces have nothing to do with it. Someone once built a bicycle with a counter-rotating wheel next to the front wheel to cancel out all the gyro forces. The bike worked fine.
Countersteering is how you initiate the lean for your upcoming turn. You are going to want to be leaning into the turn while you turn, so you twitch the wrong way to start falling over. When you are tilted over just right, you adjust the steer to carve the turn.
At low speed, the timing of the countersteering/balance is wrong, so it's hard to ride. Gyro forces or the lack thereof are not the problem.
A wheel will keep itself upright if you roll it all by itself.
Tire profile is important since a wider tire takes more effort to keep balanced. When you lean into a turn, the weight of the bike has to be over a contact patch that is an inch or so off the centerline. Most of us stick a knee toward the center of the turn to shift our weight over the new balance points.
another reaon bikes stay upright while going forward is the front wheel is designed to turn in the direction it is leaning in
"This is too hard. Hurt brain like booty." -- Gixxer rider
Turn right to go left ~Doc Hudson
That cup explanation is so sensible!
Disagree imo but can see some of your points. I’d recommending watching the Tom Scott video where he rides a push bike and they explain how you turn.
It’s less about turning the bike, more about moving the bike from underneath you. The counter steer moves the bike from under you to the outside of the corner and this establishes the lean.
Simply The Center of the wheel has a longer circumference than the edge, and since they make the same number of revolutions at the same time, you can think of the Center as moving ahead of the edge