The fear for most novice motorcyclist is dropping your bike when you get to a stop sign or during a low-speed maneuver. It's easy enough to keep your bike upright at speed, but keeping your bike from wobbling when sneaking through a parking lot can result in you taking a tumble. Honda seems to have a solution and it was first demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, USA.
Honda calls this technology “Honda Ride Assist”, and sees it as a way to help riders keep their bikes upright at stoplights, balancing their bikes during a low-speed crawl, and when in tight parking situations.
How it work: The Honda Ride Assist doesn't use gyroscopes or moving weights. The system instead keeps the bike upright with tiny steering inputs.
Honda uses an electronic steer-by-wire system that disengages the handlebars from the front forks at speeds lower than 3 mph, by passing control of the front wheel to its computer. The bike can sense lean angles and swings the wheel to either side, thousands of times per second, to counteract any tendency to overturn. It can also lengthen its wheelbase by automatically adjusting the angles of the front fork rake, lowering the bike’s center of gravity and giving it even more stability.
Under normal balancing, you can hardly tell that anything is happening at all with the front wheel as the bike remains perfectly upright like a ballerina, poised and serene.
Because the handlebars and the forks have separate motors to move them while disconnected in the steer-by-wire mode, they remain synchronized, so the rider retains control for low-speed maneuvering. If the rider accelerates above 3 mph, the two anchors come back into the forks to lock them in place, returning the motorbike to conventional steering.
This solution is not for everyone as most riders can manage their bikes perfectly. However, it would be suitable for riders who want to relax a little bit and not stress out about falling over. It can also be used by elderly riders, or riders shorter in stature. Besides, Honda Ride Assist will be great when riding a heavy bike such as a 900-lb Goldwing.
Though a great addition to any motorbike, there’s no definite timeline in place for when riders might see this tech come to market.


View images of this amazing motorbike concept below.
You can also watch a short video demonstration at: http://inspiro.com.ng/index.php/2017/03/02/82/