This almost sounds like the way you turn in skiing ... lean to the uphill
ski in order to turn downhill in the opposite direction. Transferring the
weight from the downhill ski to the uphill ski requires an up motion that
results in the weight transfer being a much smoother motion of the skis and
your lower body. The side cut on the ski is what actually turns you as that
ski is weighted. As you traverse across the face of the hill you lean
downhill to increase stability. All the time your knees are pushing toward
the hill and your head is away from the hill.
The usual motion in motorcycle riding is to have the riders head to the
inside of the turn. Apparently the streamlined bike rider has to unlearn
that motion and learn to let the radius of the front tire act as the sidecut
on the ski does.
For quicker turns in skiing you get a shorter, stiffer ski with a greater
sidecut. For longer radius turns you lengthen the ski and diminish the
sidecut. Sounds like what happens with smaller or larger tires on the front
of a bike or car to change the turning characteristics.
Just musing ...
Wes
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on 9/21/02 3:51 PM, wmtsmith@landracing.com at wmtsmith@landracing.com
wrote:
> Gary, How would a big bob weight attached to the steering mech. ( like Cary
> with the Unacycle) affect a MC 'Liner)-- an uninformed car mind would like to
> know. wmts
>>
>> From: ardunbill@webtv.net
>> Date: 2002/09/21 Sat AM 09:34:26 EDT
>> To: lsr350@hotmail.com (gary baker), land-speed@autox.team.net
>> Subject: Re: Fw: Motorcycle streamliners handling woes
>>
>> Gary, one problem I see, and I don't know the answer, is that if you
>> steer the mc streamliner right to turn right, it wants to lean to the
>> left, and maybe fall over to the left. So how do you steer and correct
>> these motions to get it to go the direction you want? I agree that the
>> rider on top of it would be better able to control it. But in "Flat
>> Out" Noel Pope was on top in '49 of the JAP/Brough streamliner, and
>> reports it wanted to go one way, and he pushed the other with all his
>> strength against the body, "like a brick wall" and it still fell over at
>> about 150 or something. However, he says the bodywork had been damaged
>> in transit from England to Bonneville, and the structure was maybe
>> warped by forcing the pieces together.
>>
>> The mc streamliner is really a deep subject. Bill
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