Motorcycles Steer Counter-Intuitively at High Speeds
Why does a motorcycle lean to the left when you turn the handlebars to the right, and to the right when you turn to the left? This is called countersteering, a phenomenon that occurs mainly at high speeds, and because few people know about it, it has already caused several accidents. This is a typical example, and right after comes another even stranger one. But why does this happen? Looking closely, you can see that when this man turns the handlebars to the right to make the turn, the motorcycle leans to the opposite side, and at the exact moment he tries to correct, the same effect happens again. In this other video, it's even clearer. When he pushes the right side of the handlebars to turn left, the motorcycle leans to the right. This phenomenon is explained by physics: it involves the gyroscopic effect generated by the tires at high speed and the centripetal force of the circular motion in the curve.