How do you balance a bicycle?

Answer 1

The simplest way to explain how you balance a bicycle is to make an analogy with the way you balance a stick on your palm. For example, suppose that the top of the stick tilts and starts to fall to the right. To regain balance, you move your hand to the right, thereby moving the bottom of the stick underneath the top. As the stick is no longer tilted, it stops falling. (Actually, you move your hand rightward just a bit further so that the stick tilts left a bit. This ends the rightward momentum of the stick, and allows you to move your hand back left, closer to you, a moment later.)
If you are riding a bike, and you start to fall to the right, you do exactly the same thing; you steer right, thereby driving the wheels directly underneath you again. Now you are no longer tilted, so you stop falling. (Once again, you actually overcompensate, so that you are tilted to the left. This stops the rightward momentum, and allows you to steer back left a moment later.)

Thus, balancing a bike is a process of making successive right and left turns. Typically these turns are very small, but can be easily seen in the tracks of a bike ridden on sand. The two tracks (from the front and rear wheels) weave in and out as the rider makes these small turns.

Riding a unicycle is very similar..

Answer 2

Mayacreatn is right, one of the biggest things keeping a bicycle upright is your sense of balance, and when the bike is moving slowly, you need to constantly turn the bike in the direction it's leaning to stop it from falling over.

However, Maya has left out an important factor that helps keep the bike moving when it is moving quickly, and that has to do more with physics than biology.

When a bicycle rolls, its tires spin and act like gyroscopes, resisting or redirecting any force that tries to knock the bike over. The principle that makes gyroscopes work is a little complicated, but it's well-explained on this site: http://science.howstuffworks.com/gyroscope1.htm

This gyroscopic effect only works when the wheels are moving, so when the bike stops, it falls over. The faster the bike is moving, the more effective the wheels are at keeping you balanced, so you have to adjust your course less often. This is why it's easier to balance a bike once you're moving at a decent speed, while balancing a bike at 1 or 2 mph (a few km/h) is more difficult.

Answer 3

Feet? No Motion. You cant balance a still cycle. You use the steering Handles if u feel falling to the left, you steer towards the left

Answer 4

sit on it and use your legs to balance,or bring it to the shop where you bought it and ask the people there to help you fix it.

Answer 5

by riding it?

it needs enough speed so that the force will be transfered going forward

Answer 6

by balancing automatically.

Answer 7

Using your body and feet

Answer 8

You take it to a tireshop and they'll take it from there. You might get charged $1.00

Answer 9

easy..using cochlear and coordination by brain

Answer 10

ummmmm....... what the first one said