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Your bike's secret to staying upright is actually a mystery

Everyone knows how a bike stays upright — the gyroscopic forces induced by the spinning wheels, and the “castor effect” created by trail. Or do they? A team of engineers says it's proven that bikes can stay upright even without these things. How to choose road bike geometryPushing the limits of fork offset: an experimentRecent progressions in mountain bike geometryWhile it’s been generally accepted for decades that they are the two factors keeping your bike upright, Engli
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