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- From: stafford@msus1.msus.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: CG (was Re: What would you ride...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.212814.1708@msus1.msus.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 21:28:14 -0600
- Organization: Minnesota State University System
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- markk@tcs.com (Mark Kromer) said (in part)
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- > At turn in, the motorcycle rotates about the cg not the contact
- > patches. Re: countersteering. Low polar moment in the transverse
- > plane (and in the longitudinal plane but for different reasons) is the
- > key, not low cg. Keep the mass concentrated as close to the cg as
- > possible.
- >
- > Winter's approaching, time for the "how does a motorcycle turn" flame
- > fest again.
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- Shit, Mark what would you know about winter living in Bezerkley!
- But you may be right. I extend an open invitation to you to ride
- some gravel roads here in Minnesota on a _low_ cg machine. Pure
- heaven on gravel. Hell on pavement.
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