Remembering back to my biker days, that's exactly
what it does. When I got back from Vietnam I
bought a chopper with a front end that musta been
twelve feet long had to have about 30 - 45
degrees of castor. That thing was like it was on
rails out on the open road, and a natural bear in
town where there were turns. In later years, as
my biking career got more sophisticated (??) and
I got into road racing moptorcycles, we actually
used gauges and adjustable axle mounts and
tripple trees to make minor changes in castor for
fast tracks like Daytona versus tight tracks like
Sebring.
That gets reinforced by all the answers I got
here on this list a year ago regarding LSR cars.
I tabulated all the answers and suggestions and
came up with around 8-10 degrees for an average
from the LSR community.
Dick J
--- The Butters Family <bbutters@coldreams.com>
wrote:
> The way I always figured castor was that it
> gives you a dead spot in your
> steering that is straight ahead. The more
> castor the harder it is to move the
> steering wheel of center and the more evident
> to your hands where straight
> ahead is. So whether you need lots or have a
> deft touch is personal. I can't
> see as how it helps handling a great deal,
> just makes it more evident where
> straight ahead is. Atleast that would be the
> case in a straight line, what it
> does besides that at Daytona I haven't a clue.
> Kvach
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