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Andy Morris's avatar

We’re going to go descend Rynex Road together and you can chalk all this out on the road for me.

tom flemming's avatar

I was going to say, "what about countersteer and angular momentum (increases with bike speed" and... Then I checked. So, you may find these interesting: https://badbicyclescience.com/tag/angular-momentum/

Kaleberg's avatar

This is interesting because I worked on takeoff and landing code for an airline, and they would take the wind velocity and break it into a parallel to motion and a crosswind component to figure out if an aircraft could use a particular runway. There was usually an aircraft minimum and maximum air speed and a maximum crosswind speed. The code used the reported or forecast wind to determine which runways could be used. Only the wind's parallel component was used to check safe airspeed. The crosswind component alone was used to check stability. Of course, aircraft only move as slowly as bicycles for brief periods during takeoff and landing, so they might have been ignoring any other effects.