How Motorcycles Corner | EXPLAINED
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ส.ค. 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 TH-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!
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
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..
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 😁
Hey Mike! Explained with swedish precision! Thank you for the analysis, recommenable vid of yours again.
Good to see you back publishing context. Thanks.
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👍👍👍
Been a while - happy you are back and enjoying your content as always!
Great cornering explanation and the formulas to calculate forces are helpful to understand what is actually happening. Thanks!
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?
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 love your channel Mike! Keep em coming I love videos that go more in depth on how to ride at the limit.
One of the better treatments on the subject I have seen. Well done
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). :)
well this is easily the earliest i’ll ever be on one of your videos
Yeah
Your videos are some of the best on YT.. I’m a better rider because of your content
Great to see you back man, your content is always top notch!
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.
THE LEGEND IS BACK
This explains everything I have been thinking about recently. Thank you! 😊
I was dying for newer vids !!! Need more often !
I been doing all this for fifty years...naturally. Very cool to "see" it all explained. Thank you.
Was just thinking how we haven't seen a video from Mike in a while. Thanks for the upload!
Riktigt professionellt. Bra video tack!
Great video Mike. This info helps everyone ride more intuitively, so thank you!
This was the type of explanation I was looking for, thanks!
This video help me alot in my motorcycle riding specially in cornering. Thanks to you man!
I felt like I was in a physics lecture.. Great video and has a lot of information.
This video provides a better explanation than the vast majority of race track tutorials I have viewed.
Finally a new video! Very informative!
I love these videos, thank you for your time.
You and your vids have been much missed!
Best turnning explanation on TH-cam, top notch!
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.
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.
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
Very thoughtful video Mike. Thanks for posting !
This exactly what I have been missing. Plus well explained. I have subscribed
Amazing video Mike! Thank you so much for sharing!
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.
Thanks a lot, author. You explain it very accessible.
Love your videos especially the physics aspect 👌
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.
Thanks for this tutorials!! And AWESOME collections of motorcycles !! Stay safe
Awesome video and explanations. Have you considered doing a video on physics of whips?
Amazing explained on a very understandable way ! Bravo and thank you
As soon as i saw the thumbnail, i immediately understood the concept of counter-steering
Excellent presentation, Mike.
This is an amazing video. Keep up the great work !!
Your videos always snag my attention to them, I must watch😎👍
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!
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
Excellent, thanks for the work.
Well, this refreshed my memory and gave me something more to learn...
More videos like these please. I learn a lot from these
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
Thank you for a great explanation and very explanatory graphics! "easy to understand"... once you watch this video many times :D
i love your videos cause i always learn so much
Wow, lots of great information and a very easily understandable presentation!
Great video, great explanation, thank you.
Finallyyy you are back
Excellent video.
Amazing to see the people that disliked this video are still alive
Just great and usefull explanation... THANKS !
great demonstrations
"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 TH-cam video on MIT freshman Physics 8.01, lecture 24, on Rolling Motion and Gyroscopes:
th-cam.com/video/XPUuF_dECVI/w-d-xo.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.
As a new rider I really appreciate this video. Thanks
This video is a gem! ❤️
Excellent!
One more helpful video. Thank you so much ☺️
Brilliant video: thanks!
that was a great explaination, thank you very much
Outstanding! As usual.
Exceptional explanation
Superb explanation!
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 :-)
This video made me feel like I was actually in a corner. Well done 👏 ✔ 😌
easy to understand... nice explaination
Great Vid. Succinct with great pacing. Keep it highbrow.
Wowww, your videoes are absolute amazing
Thanks a lot, brother!
Great explanation
Mike on bikes+supermotos= instant like.
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!!
Really nice bro. Congrats!!
Suuuper video like always bro!!! :) :) ;)
Solid content, good popularization
Very informative video..👍👍👍
very good explanation
Thanks Mike!
Very very interesting thank you
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!
This is the 1st TH-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. :-(
This is great!
Perfect 👌, thanks!!!
Great video ! Thanks!
(Also, a great humor brake with that image at 8:12 🤣 )