What is it called when you coast on a bike, you stay on, but when it stops, you fall off?
Is there a scientific word, or term, for this?
Is there a scientific word, or term, for this?
roger
Dynamic balance.
Anonymous
Inertia. When the bike stops, the body keeps moving.
?
The bike in motion maintains dynamic stability, if steered correctly.
Balance is much harder to maintain without the stability afforded by constant forward motion.
Anonymous
loss of momentum balance
Anonymous
the bike is gyroscopically self stabilizing, as long as the wheels are moving.
i guess you could call it that
when the wheels stop turning the gyroscopic effect disappears. and you fall over.