On 2/12/2014 12:12 PM, KC wrote:
On 2/12/2014 12:03 PM, KC wrote:
On 2/12/2014 11:40 AM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:38:48 -0500, KC wrote:

On 2/12/2014 11:20 AM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 10:33:01 -0500, KC wrote:

On 2/12/2014 10:06 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/12/2014 9:42 AM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:06:41 -0500, BAR wrote:

In article ,
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Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/9/2014 6:25 PM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Sun, 9 Feb 2014 15:03:40 -0800 (PST), Tim

wrote:

On Sunday, February 9, 2014 4:30:04 PM UTC-6, John H. wrote:
On Sun, 9 Feb 2014 13:31:40 -0800 (PST), Tim

wrote:



On Sunday, February 9, 2014 7:31:31 AM UTC-6, F.O.A.D.
wrote:

I'd love to have one of these...







http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7mTwM7afQA





how about something like this?



http://thekneeslider.com/1937-front-...cle-prototype/









Looks like something Moto Guzzi made during the war.

"Goose" probably tries something like that too, but this is
French,
and the French at that time were known to be great
tinkerers, with
results to match.

Yeah, I should have said it looks like something Guzzi
*could* have
made during the war. Something
like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cOlS_ShXf4



Here's an idea for Scott: (warning - contains boating content)

http://www.elrellano.com/videos_online/8146/barca-a-motor.html


No steering unless that rowboat has a bow thruster.

Just like a motor cycle, you just lean into the turn to make it go
that way.

No, leaning doesn't make it turn. Leaning enables the motorcycle
to be
kept more vertical when
turning. Pushing on the handlebar makes you turn. Push left, go
left.
Push right, go right.
Countersteering.


Heh. I just mentioned to Scott about that. Those who don't ride
will
think it's weird. They think it should turn like a car.



Yes, counter steering but again, it's not the fastest way around the
corner

It's the only way around the corner, at speed, on a motorcycle.


No it's not.... if you are countersteering, your drive wheel is way
outside the most efficient line and needs to come back before you can
get traction and get out of the corner...

You countersteer to get the bike to lean, once leaned you can skid on
around. But, you first have to
get the turn started.


Trust me, .01 seconds coming in and going out...Way too much sideways,
not enough forward.... Look, I put the stopwatch to this **** every day,
I trained my daughter to corner "as good as any body in the division"...
But I am not gonna' argue any more with it.

Let me take it one step further... I get what you are saying Dick but
that's old school... we now "get the turn started" by drawing slightly
on the front brake and using throttle (not brakes) to break away the
back end. Now I can "get into the corner" without spending all that time
(.003 seconds??) wobbling back and fourth instead of going forward... I
know it seems like a tiny thing, but again, the secret I just told you
is "very new school" and Jess was one of the first to embrace it three
years ago..... It works, period. I saw her corner circles around a WMA
pro a few weeks back... Jaws dropped for sure...


I am not arguing with you. I don't ride dirt bikes around racetracks so
losing .01 seconds on a country road turn on a Harley doesn't mean
anything to me. :-)