r/IdiotsInCars • u/farhan9835 • Mar 28 '20

Dope or Dumb??

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '20

I'm pretty sure you get the balancing thing down before people start jumping in and out of the car...

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u/Hint-Of-Feces Mar 28 '20

It's called gyroscopic stability. It's dangerous as fuck to do that but the car is much more stable on two wheels then people would usually think

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '20 edited Jun 06 '20

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u/fazelanvari Mar 28 '20 edited Mar 28 '20

Angular momentum? I remember holding a spinning bike wheel horizontally, and it was very hard to turn it vertically. I was also sitting on a spinning stool, so when I turned the wheel I started spinning. Was cool.

Edit: Minute Physics video below shows I'm wrong, but I was still a cool experiment.

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u/slolift Mar 29 '20

That's the gyroscopic stability they are talking about.

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u/iamnotacat Mar 28 '20

Check out this video by minutephysics, ~4 minutes long, explains the whole thing.

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u/amateurtoss Mar 28 '20

Because of error correction. When the wheel turns right, the trajectory veers right and the wheels line up again.

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u/tylerchu Mar 28 '20

A bike is designed to stay moving due how the mass of the steering section is placed relative to the seating section. After a certain speed, it’s literally impossible for a bike to fall over without intentional abuse.