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Originally Posted by banda
What happens when you yank the wheel of your SUV to the left while driving? The body rolls in the opposite direction, to the right. That's just disconcerting in an SUV, but on a motorcycle, the effect is to roll the bike onto a coned part of the tire... that's how the corner is initiated.
Gyroscopes got nothing to do with it. To prove it, motorcycles have been constructed with counter rotating sub wheels to cancel out or even override the gyro effect. Guess what. They still turn just like a regular motorcycle.
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I agree regarding gyroscopics only affecting how hard it is to turn a bike, not how a turn is initiated (I think Dezmo must have misquoted/remembered what this Kevin Cameron guy said, or yet another
expert is not always right
) ... BUT I do not agree that a bike's corner is initiated by the type rolling on to the coned part of the tire.
A bike's turn is initiated by either:
1 - Handle bars turned IN to the corner for low speed steering, or
2 - Weight on the inside of the bike causing the bike to want to fall that way for higher speed cornering (counter steering does this by producing a inwards force on the head stock of the bike).
Pete