Patents are one of the most exciting insights into the future of powersports, but they can also be one of the most frustrating. Recently, Can-Am had the RideApart team at odds over what a patent was all about, but this time it's Honda.
A recently filed patent by Honda has RideApart's Executive Editor, Jonathon Klein, wondering if the OEM is developing a power-steering system for motorcycles, whereas I began to wonder if this couldn't be an electronic steering damper of sorts. However, after diving deeper into the patent, I changed my take entirely.
According to the technical problem information, this is the issue that the device sets out to solve, "When a saddle-ride vehicle is running, turning operations are often performed successively in mutually different directions, such as a left turn immediately followed by a right turn. When the rider steers the handle to successively perform such turning operations, there has been a problem that the rider may be caused to feel discomfort if attitude stabilization control, specifically a steering assist to maintain the attitude upright, is performed."
