On bike handling. The updated version handles a lot better than before, but still there's a problem at low speeds.
Pardon my ignorance, if I misunderstood how it works, or if it's already done in some way.
If I got it right, bikes use direct steer input at speeds <7km/h, and the bike is kept upright with driver's virtual feet. But at >7km/h, steering input switches to control the
desired lean angle, and LFS steers the wheel for you to maintain it.
After the recent update, it handles better, but between 7 and 20 km/h you still fall down too often. Here's a replay where I reproduced what happens: you steer and try stopping, but lean angle develops too quickly. It happens very often at such low speeds.
I've checked with the videos on bikes (
1,
2, and see that in these speeds range you don't lean the bike so hard as in high-speed turns.
My question is: maybe the "desired lean" angle should be limited at low speeds? Like at 40 km/h there's no limit, but at 7 km/h the desired lean angle is near zero.
Another idea is to let the driver put a virtual foot inside the corner, if the speed of the foot speed is slow enough -- it may be slower than the bike, and 10 km/h is like slow jogging.