How bikes work

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Re: How bikes work

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Data logging? The MSF did it in the 1970s. Albeit with a film camera bolted onto the bike, aimed at a pointer fixed to the bars :)
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Re: How bikes work

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I don't think anyone with access to that sort of data needs to prove countersteering is a thing, I'm just a bit suprised no-ones shown it on YouTube or whatever. Maybe they have and I've just not seen it.
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Re: How bikes work

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the chassis dynamics fella was Damian Harty, and the leaning car was called a Naro (narrow) it was 4 wheeled but it leaned over to turn