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Originally Posted by sharky nrk
It would be because the centrifugal force is related to the square of velocity. Simplified the faster your moving around the arc of a turn, the greater the force pushing you outward - to combat this, physically you lean the bike at an angle and use this force to drive the contact patch into the surface to create additional friction force for the tire to grip.
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I didn't write
What has speed got to do with "difficult lean angles / speed"
I wrote What has (
"lowish") speed got to do with "difficult lean angles / speed" ?
You described what happens with any turn.
From what I've read re: lean angles, the lateral forces are the same for a 45 degree turn, whether it's 22 mph for a 40 foot radius, or 50 mph for a 200 foot radius, etc.