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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Interesting and informative indeed. The closest the 99.9 percent of us will ever get to “turning right to go left” is learning to ride a bicycle. The physics of this is why it takes a while to learn how to ride a bicycle. The first thing a cyclist does to turn left is to twitch the handlebars right, which creates the opposite reaction and leans the bike to the left. Then in a split second, with the lean in progress, the cyclist quite naturally swings the handlebars over to the left, and completes the left turn. That little millisecond “twitch to the right” is lost in the shuffle — the average rider has no idea he does it. When this whole thing finally clicks somewhere in the subconscious, that’s when a kid can ride a bike.


12 posted on 08/13/2014 6:27:13 AM PDT by duckworth (Perhaps instant karma's going to get you. Perhaps not.)
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To: duckworth
Driving a street car isn't the same as driving a sprint car. Much of the left turning is done with the steering wheel cranked hard to the right. The right rear wheel is much larger than the left.

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14 posted on 08/13/2014 6:34:01 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: duckworth

A great graphic of this concept is a flat track motorcycle in a full power slide. In a left turn, the wheel is turned right (sometimes to the full lock) to stabilize the bike and allow the rear end to slide. The same physics is used in a sprint car - it just more obvious on a flat track motorcycle.


42 posted on 08/13/2014 9:31:00 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Ignore the GOP-e. Cruz to victory in 2016.)
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