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		VBprogrammer on Aug 6, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We still don't really know how bicycles work A slightly mind blowing fact is that if you ride a motorbike at reasonable speed in order to enter a turn to the right you actually turn the handle bars to the left. This causes the motorcycle to lean-over to the right and thus entering a turn in that direction (due to the horizontal component of the weight).

tacticus on Aug 7, 2013 [–]

Counter steering is incredibly freaky when on the bike as well.

You force yourself to fall and let the bike catch you and damn it is disconcerting the first few (hundred) times.

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