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If the questioner is asking why a bicycle does not easily fall over while someone is riding one, the answer is because the front wheel is being steered to keep the support points, the tire contact patches, under the center of mass. The input steering torque is usually provided by the rider with some contribution from the bike, but under certain circumstances it can be provided entirely by the bicycle itself.

Over the years, different individual effects have been offered as the sole or main contributor to this self-stability: the gyroscopic effects of the spinning wheels or the mechanical trail of the front wheel. Recent scientific studies, however, have shown that all of these effects are neither necessary nor sufficient for a bicycle to be self stable. Instead, each may contribute only a portion of the total handling and stability of any particular bicycle.

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