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RE: Fw: Motorcycle streamliners handling woes

To: "Skip Higginbotham" <saltrat@pro-blend.com>,
Subject: RE: Fw: Motorcycle streamliners handling woes
From: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 23:31:41 -0500
Skip:
could I borrow the suspenders from your fire suit?
Russ

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-land-speed@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-land-speed@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Skip Higginbotham
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 12:04 PM
To: Dick J
Cc: land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Fw: Motorcycle streamliners handling woes


Now I suppose that we could ask Don Vesco......he might know.......
I just don't understand how putting a body on a motorcycle can make it hard
to handle?????? If the geometry is the same it should handle the
same....Russ Mack's liner will have the rider on his stomach....if he can
figure out a safety harness system that will work...
Skip



At 09:12 AM 9/22/02 -0700, you wrote:
>It seems like it would handle better if it were designed for the driver
>(rider?) to lay prone on his stomach rather than reclined rearward.  Then
it
>could be handled like a plain old snow sled, or like belly surfing. It
would
>respond to body movement and input more like a normal motorcycle.
>Dick J

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