A motorcycle turns by 'falling over'. For me, that and the acceleration are the main attractions. Can't imagine this will get many motorcyclists to convert.
This is my biggest question also. How does the thing turn at high velocity with those gyros. Either the gyros has to make the bike fall before the front wheel actually starts turning or you have to manually countersteer which the gyros will try to counter. I find it hard to believe that the gyros will handle the "centrifugal" forces by themselves if you do a sharp turn in high speed.
Did nobody notice that they never show anyone driving the thing more than 5 meters at a time and only straight forward?
And when the reporter is "trying" to knock the thing over she hardly touches it.
I would like to see a video with some rougher scenarios before i believe in this thing.
It has a steering wheel. Can you imagine counter-steering with a steering wheel? Swerving to avoid something on the road? Gyros would greatly reduce agility if they were not deeply tied into the steering, so I wonder if the steering isn't a direct mechanical linkage.
Not sure, maybe. I think they'll be trying to target people who likes MCs but are too afraid to hop in one, so it would make sense to have the counter steering mechanically done instead of giving you the full control... I also couldn't find anything about speed and power.
I presume that it's actually a fly-by-wire (drive-by-wire?) system where the steering wheel directs a controller to 'do the right thing' with a combination of steering and gyro changes, rather than directly controlling the front wheel as in a normal motorcycle.
