Steering in bicycles and motorcycles
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Steering a motorcycle or bicycle is counterintuitive; to turn right, you must steer left initially, and vice versa. You can execute this initially counter-directed turn by turning the handlebars explicitly ~called counter-steering! or by throwing your hips to the side. Contrary to common belief, gyroscopic forces play only a limited role in balancing and steering @D. E. H. Jones, Phys. Today 23 ~4!, 34–40 ~1970!#. © 2000 American Association of Physics Teachers.
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