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<blockquote data-quote="wil780" data-source="post: 1197552" data-attributes="member: 24008"><p>Bravo, Beary!</p><p></p><p>I've read and participated in many threads on other forums about how a bike actually turns, and eventually I figured this out for myself. I've never seen this analysis posted anywhere, so if you figured it out for yourself as well, congratulations.</p><p></p><p>(It's really hard to sort this out because many experts say that camber force explains everything, but when they try to explain it they demonstrate that they don't understand it either. The key for me was realizing that camber force only turns the wheel to the side. It can't turn the bike. Much of the front end geometry is there to counterbalance camber force so a well set-up bike doesn't need any force on the bars once it's reached its final bank angle and is proceeding around a turn. The wheel points into the turn just far enough to generate the slip angle that produces the friction needed to turn the corner.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wil780, post: 1197552, member: 24008"] Bravo, Beary! I've read and participated in many threads on other forums about how a bike actually turns, and eventually I figured this out for myself. I've never seen this analysis posted anywhere, so if you figured it out for yourself as well, congratulations. (It's really hard to sort this out because many experts say that camber force explains everything, but when they try to explain it they demonstrate that they don't understand it either. The key for me was realizing that camber force only turns the wheel to the side. It can't turn the bike. Much of the front end geometry is there to counterbalance camber force so a well set-up bike doesn't need any force on the bars once it's reached its final bank angle and is proceeding around a turn. The wheel points into the turn just far enough to generate the slip angle that produces the friction needed to turn the corner.) [/QUOTE]
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