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- Subject: Re: What would you ride on a long distance trip?
- Message-ID: <28764.89.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us>
- From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
- Date: 19 Nov 92 11:26:00 GMT
- Reply-To: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
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- -> What non'Wing riders don't seem to understand is that the flat four
- -> and transmission are within a foot and a half of the ground. Where
- -> is the CG of their sportbike's engine/trans?
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- CG height doesn't appear to be as important to motorcycles as it does
- to cages. It's a factor in wheelies and stoppies, and it makes a
- difference when braking in a corner, but speed of response doesn't seem
- to be affected. Cook Neilson did a rather interesting article on it in
- the (now defunct) Cycle Magazine, citing machines such as the Elf
- series.
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