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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?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    Dynamic balance.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Inertia. When the bike stops, the body keeps moving.

  • 2 years ago

    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
    2 years ago

    loss of momentum balance

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  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    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.

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