What causes a rider to drift  to the outside?

Started by smoke, September 22, 2003, 06:20:27 AM

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tzracer

The rate of lean is important, a bike cannot reach the proper lean angle instantly. The longer it takes to reach your maximum lean angle, the more the bike has to be leaned to follow the same path that a rider who reached their max lean angle more quickly. Think of it like this. To follow a certain circular path, a bike needs a certain lean angle, call this the theoretical lean angle. Since the bike cannot lean instantly, your lean angle is less than the theoretical lean angle, to make up for it you need to lean more than the theoretical lean angle. Your average (this would be a time average) lean angle is the theoretical lean angle.

Your real path is a series of arcs whose start and finish points are the same as the single theoretical arc.
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KBOlsen

CCS AM 815... or was that 158?

tzracer

Just spin in your chair the opposite direction that your head is spinning.
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