Why are bicycles stable? The most common answer is gyroscopic effects, but this is not right. This video was sponsored by Kiwico. Get 50% off your first month of any crate at https://kiwico.com/veritasium50

Huge thanks to Rick Cavallaro for creating this bike on short notice. Thanks to all the friends who participated in the filming. Rick was also responsible for the Blackbird Faster Than The Wind Downwind Cart.    • Risking My Life To Settle A Physics D...  

Much of the information presented here on the stability of a riderless bicycle stems from original research at
Delft http://bicycle.tudelft.nl/schwab/Bicy...
and
Cornell http://ruina.tam.cornell.edu/research...

This line of bicycle-balance research was initiated by Jim Papadopoulos: https://www.nature.com/articles/535338a

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MinutePhysics: How Do Bikes Stay Up?    • How Do Bikes Stay Up?  

MinutePhysics: The Counterintuitive Physics of Turning a Bike:    • The Counterintuitive Physics of Turni...  

Why Bicycles Do Not Fall - Arend Schwab TED talk:    • Why bicycles do not fall: Arend Schwa...  

Today I Found Out: We Still Don't Know How Bicycles Work    • We Still Don’t Know How Bicycles Work  

TU Delft - Smart motor in handlebars prevents bicycles from falling over:    • TU Delft - Smart motor in handlebars ...  

Andy Ruina Explains How Bicycles Balance Themselves:    • Andy Ruina explains how bicycles bala...  

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More References:

TU Delft Bicycle Site: http://bicycle.tudelft.nl/schwab/Bicy...

Bicycle stability program: http://ruina.tam.cornell.edu/research...

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Written by Derek Muller
Filmed by Trenton Oliver, Raquel Nuno and Derek Muller
Edited by Derek Muller
Music from Epidemic Sound and Jonny Hyman
Produced by Derek Muller, Petr Lebedev and Emily Zhang