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How Do Bikes Stay Up?
minutephysics
A short minutephysics video explaining why bicycles stay upright. It looks at gyroscopic precession, head angle and centre of mass, and shows that bikes self-steer toward the direction they lean.
HN people link it as a quick, clear answer to the question of bicycle stability, including in threads on bike mathematics.
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