Bicycle model in chapeter 10

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Just to make bicycle model calculation more clear to me. Assuming both wheels are on the same circle of radius R (that is exactly the no slip assumption) then pure trigonometry gives w / R = tan(alpha) (as both radius are perpendicular to wheels) and then with beta = d / R we obtain beta = d / w * tan(alpha)

otherwise the relationship beta = d / w * tan(alpha) at the beginning seems to come "out of the hat".