How does a “tank slapper” occur? Why wouldn’t a motorcycle simply fall over instead of having the wheel wobble from side to side?
In: Engineering
Do you mean the death wobble?
Well because conservation of momentum. Also, the bike *does* fall over if they get bad enough. The natural way a bike rolls is straight, and the wheels *really* want to go straight, so unless you get some serious wobbles where the entire center of mass gets shot one way or another very quickly, you can usually recover from it by just slowing down.
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