Why do bicycle riders lean inward when rounding a curve at

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Why do bicycle riders lean inward when rounding a curve at high speed?

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Why do bicycle riders lean inward when rounding a curve at high speed?

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The expression for centripetal force is,

Here,  is the velocity and  is the distance of separation.

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