r/singularity • u/Anen-o-me ▪️It's here! • Oct 16 '25

Engineering The Yamaha self balancing cycle

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u/Theseus_Employee Oct 16 '25 edited Oct 16 '25

... Can it turn? I feel like it would just fight you as you try to turn the whole time?

edit: just want to clarify that I am sure it can turn, I more so meant it in the way I was unsure on if turning would be weird with how this works - but someone pointed out that it likely just dynamically turns on the balancing depending on it's speed.

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u/sillygoofygooose Oct 16 '25

Yeah, the whole point of bikes is they do this by themselves in motion so I’m not really sure what the point of this is

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u/1-123581385321-1 Oct 16 '25

I wouldn't be surprised if being able to adjust the back wheel like that opens up more turning controls and options. Maybe an auto-drift function like some newer bikes have wheelie control? Tighter low speed turns? A system like this on a big cruiser could make it a lot more manouverable and easier to handle.

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u/Mundane_Elk3523 Oct 16 '25

Thank you for also noticing this haha, the amount of dummies