Thank you for this information! Now when I crash my bike due to lack of skills, I can just tell everyone who witnessed it that I made incorrect mechanical adjustments on the bike that resulted in poor geometry conditions!!!

Anti-Squat sounds quite slavphobic.

I'm currently doing a study about motorcycle suspension and some dynamics and this video has summarized a big part of a few books that I've read, which were kind of hard to understand. Thanks for making this, made it really easy to understand, props for that.

I've been following you for a while. Your quality has been getting better and better!!

2:26 "the numbers, mason! What do they mean ?!" (I dont know if someone else wrote this or something similar)

I bought this book many years ago and I highly recommend it: Motorcycle Design & Technology: How and Why by Gaetano Cocco

Finally one no BS video with actual information and it is explained correctly. Perfect!

Excellent explanations! This information is necessary for both racers and cruisers who want to better their skills by understanding how skills work with the geometry of the bike. Thanks for such a well made video!

Thanks Mike. Been riding all my life. When I decided to go track riding on a Sportbike i chose one whose frame is near perfect for me... 2018 Aprilia RSV4 RF LE#14 w/wings!😍

Fantastic video! I come from the offroad side of bikes and chassis setup is equally important. I would always try and talk my customers into getting chassis and suspension setup before getting all the engine mods they wanted. Makes a huge difference.

Nice videos mike!! I spent endless nights thinking and reading and searching for all these technical issues and details. Is nice to watch them all in one video. One point still not clear to me is the effect of the height of the neck (steering head) from the ground since is very different between bikes of same category. Seems important to me

The rider is just an onboard engineer.

I need a KTM scale model like that to fool around with at the office

This was great, informative and best of all told by a simple man ( Mike on bikes ) those books are hard to understand in some ways. But when it comes to suspension geometry it's almost like opening Pandora's box. Plenty but heads trying to set up or ajust suspension systems. Mike you said it best and simple to understand and I applaud you for this bit of knowledge.

My favorite video from you thus far. You’re growing a lot

Super job, Mike. Reading the transcript is a great help to really digesting all this.

A big thing that many newbies over look is rear axle position.. Pushing the axle further to the rear will make the bike turn in slower and the moving it forward will make it turn in quicker without even touching the front forks. So try to find the optimal axle length position and if you want to change gearing use different lenght chains to keep it in the sweet spot the rear of a motorcycle is often overlooked but very important for optimal suspension settings

dude, it feels like every once in a while i come back to this video and it blows my mind how much we don't know about motorcycles. i reckon i will watch this video dozens more times, and with more and more reading in between and hopefully one day I will understand all these points more intuitively. (also speaking as an engineer who loves bikes, btw) This time, the point about centre of gravity making it easier to flick bikes around was a big revelation. the bike i am riding now is a 390 adventure, and recently i started doing more counterleaning in canyon twisties riding and i felt like it made a HUGE difference in my cornering confidence. then i started reading about the tribal comments of whether to lean off or counter lean. So naturally i started wondering if the bike had any effect on whether it is better to counterlean or lean off, and the point about centre of gravity i think answered this question. I really wish this channel was still making new content but i am grateful of these videos. Thank you!

Awesome video. Love the visuals. Really helped me wrap my mind around the subject. Subscribed!

Another great video! You deserve so many more subscribers, awesome content as always!

How comes you don't have more subscribers? The quality of this video and it's technical content is amazing. Congrats and thanks for sharing!

Jhony sins known as teacher, scientist, doctor, etc..so when he explain about bikes, its a best explanation.. 👏👏

Thanks Mike, I really enjoy your videos, seems that just as I get my head round one aspect of setting up my Tracer 900GT, I need to understand something else. As I am fond of saying, the more you know, the more you realise how little you know. Luckily I have you and my 2 sons, an Astrophysicist and Mechanical Engineer to help me

Great info ! Thanks! now i have some things to think about for my bike for next season here in sweden :)

I had to stop half way because my head started hurting. Will watch again tomorrow ;)

Awesome vid mate! First I've seen of yours and hitting the sub, keep up the good work

This is a great video with a lot of informative content! Thanks Mike!

Holy crap I just learned so much in 12min! Thank you fo your videos dude, these are so great!

i love the professionality with the colored lights in the background xD

A loot of custom builders especially in USA must immediately watch this video, because some custom bikes are unrideable. Nice educational video

Such a complicated subject explained perfectly, thankyou! Fantastic presentation too

OMG I have looking for this everywhere...this is a great help for me bro thanks

Impressive! Gonna need to watch this a few times though!

Blew my mind man! Never knew any of this!!! Same with the tire friction vid you did!

Very interesting! Great explanation! I think I'm ready to build a motorcycle from scratch now...

Great video as always. Was wondering where your videos were 😂😅 keep producing bro

2:25 Me, even after watching the entire video 😣

Mike, EXCELLENT video man!

Wow, that was a really great explanation.

Excellent brother! Youve earned your subscribe button push! 😂😂👍👍 Cant wait for the next one 🤙🤙

Great video! Explaining tyre geometry and characteristics would also be nice

10/10. finally a simple explanation with examples!

Great video in general, but the part around lean angle and COG is maybe a bit misleading. Lean angle only becomes dependent COG location when combined with wide tyres (e.g. sports bikes) because the tyre contact patch moves away from the center line of the bike when you corner. For something on skinny tyres the location of COG has negligible impact on the lean angle required for a given speed.

Your videos are so awesome, I learn a lot , thank you very very much

Great video with useful information. Ty!

I daily an SV, awesome lesson bro greatly appreciated by the moto community

Don’t know why you are being downvoted? Loved the information and the format. Thank you!

Nice video bro! Thanks for the explanation 🙌

Thanks for making this video very informative.

Interesting, well explained, got a good understanding, on watching video twice. Please make more videos on given subject, & Aerodynamics.

i cant be the only one who actually understood what he said as he said it. mechanics isn't that difficult. the important thing is understanding the jargon. at least he didn't drone on about calculus equations.

Another excellent episode

Thanks a lot. I will have to watch this again, probably more than once, but I think I got enough of it this time to know that... I will not be adjusting the suspension on my small or big scooters!

What a fantastic video. Thank you very much 👍🏻

More of such informative videos please!

this is the best video about motorcycle center of gravity

My respects!! great content! From Lima Perú

Excellent information. Well presented. Subscribed. Should be compulsory viewing for anyone who owns a motorcycle. I know, i am 65 & have been riding for almost 50 years. You must understand your machine for it & yourself to perform at the optimum. So much to learn but much pleasure in that. Thank you.

really great channel bro !!!!!! congratz !!!!!!!

Beautifully explains, Thank you very much

Loved the video, ai learnt quite a lot🤝

Its Actually very easy to understand. From static sag to the basic gyro of the motorcycle. Which is Actually what was taking place when you said : You want to turn and the bike wants to go straight. Which is what you get with counter steering.

Awesome training! 👌🏿🙌🏿👏🏿

Excellent! Thx for the vid.

great job Mike!!

this actually helps me with my bike(bycicle)skill thx

This video was for tertiary students. I needed something for primary kids to understand all this

Riding a race bike at insane speeds on a track is on my bucket list!

Like your videos. Thanks for creating them

i would like you to go deeper on the subject , for example spring stiffness, soft vs hard precompression or preload?, dumping etc. Very cool vid many thanks.

fantastic video. It's a RSV though, not a RSV4 ;)

4:38 how do you set up that camera with stabilizer on bike tank

Great content! Congrats

Really cool video. In the end a lot depends on the rider's input, obviously right? I liken tag to hitting a baseball and how quickly your mind has to adapt in the moment. I have good experience on all styles of motorcycle. Great information.

Thanks for sharing knowledge about Motorcycle Geometry..Person who wants to learn about VD related to Motorcycle should watch this Video.....

outstanding! love this vid

no. 1k likes! this video give me so much information .. i used to thought 'setup' is just the suspension settings

Simple explanations of important principles in two wheeling. I run two boxer BMWs: an 84 R100 and 2017 R9T. Completely different geometry on a number of fronts especially the old vs. new suspension. When I get on the 84 after a lot of time on the 2017 I have to be very careful because I will go into a corner with some speed on the 84 and it will not respond at all like the newer bike: it will not carry the same line, will not be as easy to flick into a turn etc. It is a very quick lesson on geometry. There have been some pucker moments let me tell you.

Excellent video! From another Engineer here! Cheers

Thank you for this information brother. Love from #Sikkim

Great video! But one question: Are you sure the bike with lower center gravity need more lean angle for a given speed?

No one talk about motorcycle geometry so clear ever!

Great video! Thank you ❤️❤️❤️

Dude, those bike models are too cool.

Easy to understand, thank you! Curious if your able to send a link to where you purchased your RSV model?

Great lesson. Thanks.

Hi and thanks for the video .. when and in what cases you know that you need to lower the front suspention a lil bit ?

Awesome video!!!

Thanks a lot for the explanations

Hi. Mike. Nice video. I would like to add few pointers from my experience. Its not only the CG height, which makes vehicle agile or stable, but the ratio of vehicle CG height to rider CG. The way I explain it to my team members, is assume vehicle a vertical rod pivoted at ground with a weights clipped at a heights. While you give input at top end. Lower the height, less efforts you need to move stick around. Higher the weight, higher efforts and less accelerations you can give to stick. No doubt bike tend to capsize at lower speeds with higher height of weight. To prove this, I did few experiments while tuning a production bike. In first trial I mount 15kg (for 150kg bike) weight at level of crank shaft or below engine and in 2nd trial, same weight above tank, the effect can be perceived significantly.

love he model bikes, great lesson thx.

On a sports bike lower the front fork spring pre-load and increase the rebound dampening. Great cornering entry, skitterish front end through the corner with some under steering on the exit. Try it.

“The use of wide tyres causes another difficulty when the bike rolls because the contact patch moves further and further from the bike’s centreline and from its steering axis. The taller the tyre section the more pronounced these effects are; lower sections minimize them, for a given width of tyre. There are several effects. It reduces the camber thrust for a given angle of lean. Ironically, a bike with a higher centre of gravity or with the centre of gravity shifted in towards the turn, will require less angle of lean to balance its centrifugal force.” I took that off John Robinson’s book, Motorcycle Tuning Chassis second edition under the section of contact area in tyres. Perhaps maybe you could do a video why wider tyres need more lean angle to turn and narrow tyres use less. And how how centrifugal force is actually needed to turn with the same bike but different width tyres. Perhaps you can mention why did MotoGP used 16.5 wheels and why some asian drag bikes used bicycle sized wheels on their drag bikes. Thank you in advance

Great job, Thank you!

If I increase the rear ride height the bike will become more agile right? Since the trail will decrease and swingarm angle will increase...

Great video!

Great video, thx!!

I would be interested in seeing your analysis of BMW telelever parameter set up!

Really well explained.

Great video TNX !