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Why does a bike turn
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<blockquote data-quote="Northwoods Snowman" data-source="post: 1373095" data-attributes="member: 57571"><p>Wil780, you need to take the term "slip" and banish it from your memory. Slippage is the absence of friction. The absence of friction can't turn something. When a tire slips you enter into dynamic friction (two surfaces sliding past each other) which is ALWAYS less than static friction (two surfaces staying stationary to each other). You talk about "slip angle", and I like this definition of it: "In vehicle dynamics, slip angle or sideslip angle is the angle between a rolling wheel's actual direction of travel and the direction towards which it is pointing." In other words if you have a high slip angle, you're going in a different direction than that in which the wheels are pointed. A good example would be the front end of the bike washing out in a sandy corner. That would be a high slip angle; the wheel is turned but the bike is still going straight ahead.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Northwoods Snowman, post: 1373095, member: 57571"] Wil780, you need to take the term "slip" and banish it from your memory. Slippage is the absence of friction. The absence of friction can't turn something. When a tire slips you enter into dynamic friction (two surfaces sliding past each other) which is ALWAYS less than static friction (two surfaces staying stationary to each other). You talk about "slip angle", and I like this definition of it: "In vehicle dynamics, slip angle or sideslip angle is the angle between a rolling wheel's actual direction of travel and the direction towards which it is pointing." In other words if you have a high slip angle, you're going in a different direction than that in which the wheels are pointed. A good example would be the front end of the bike washing out in a sandy corner. That would be a high slip angle; the wheel is turned but the bike is still going straight ahead. [/QUOTE]
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