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Not sure that’s true. My understanding is the lowside happens when the tires lose traction while cornering so the bike skids along the road on its side with ri
by seanhunter 3y ago
Not sure that’s true. My understanding is the lowside happens when the tires lose traction while cornering so the bike skids along the road on its side with rider often beneath it (or hopefully behind it).
The highside happens when the bike is cornering in a skid and the tires regain traction but he angle of the bike is insufficient for the speed and the radius of the corner[1]. This regaining of traction causes the bike to flip towards the outside of the corner, throwing the rider over the high side.
A death wobble happens on any road (ie not just when cornering) and you hit a bump that the suspension can’t recover from which also causes a deflection in the steering. The action of the bike attempting to gyroscopically self-correct, coupled with the rebound of the suspension causes the bike to go into the wobble from side to side (if the bike has a steering or suspension flaw). You eventually get thrown off the bike either side.
[1] Given the speed of the bike, the angle of lean and the radius of the corner I would think it is often the case in a high side that if the tyre had not regained traction that the bike would have skidded out and the rider would have had a low side crash instead.