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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