Why is it easier to balance a bicycle while it’s in motion?

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I never quite understood why it is so much easier to keep a bike balanced while riding at a certain speed, compared to riding it really slow, or while standing…

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Believe it or not, we actually don’t know completely. this is an open question. For a long time we thought that it was because of gyroscopic forces, angular momentum, but that’s not the whole equation. I think veritasium did a episode on it.

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