A closer look
For decades, we falsely assumed two-wheeled death machines stayed upright purely because spinning wheels act like gyroscopes. Physicists finally built bicycles with counter-rotating wheels to cancel out the gyroscope effect, and they still stayed up perfectly fine. It turns out, motorcycles self-correct almost entirely due to the trail geometry of the front steering column. Basically, the handlebars micro-steer into the fall, proving physicists are just making stuff up half the time.
