Efes123
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 Posted: 09:06 - 10 Dec 2012  Post subject: Re: Is it a Bike, or is it a Car? |
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| Efes123 wrote: | Nees a bike license to ride it. I wonder how it corners with those stabilsers? |
They say the gyros take input from the steering wheel to help it lean, rather than resisting the lean.
I wonder how quickly it responds to input though, and if the steering is by wire or directly attached to the direction of the front wheel.
Steering wheels are not conducive to the kind of quick direction changes you can make on a bike, so I'd hazard a guess that it's by wire, and relatively sluggish, like a car. On the other hand, that may make it less susceptible to rider-induced cornering errors, like getting scared and not continuing to steer around the bend, or standing the bike up by braking.
It won't feel much like a bike to ride, especially given the kind of seat it has. Depending on how fast you're going and how fast you want to turn, you either rotate the bike underneath you with countersteering and effectively lean in the wrong direction, or you lean with the bike as you take the corners. The fact that you sit on a bike rather than in a bike adds significantly to the agility, because you can use steering to torque the bike over without the resistance of the moment of inertia of your body. It's what makes swerving an effective evasive manoeuvre.
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