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Re: Wheel speed indicators. Not the forbidden traction devices.

To: land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Wheel speed indicators. Not the forbidden traction devices.
From: Jon Wennerberg <jon@infodestruction.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:22:48 -0500
It's been done on two-wheeled vehicles, too.

                 Jon Wennerberg
Seldom Seen Slim Land Speed Racing
              Marquette, Michigan
              (that's 'way up north)

On Nov 16, 2006, at 5:07 PM, James Tone wrote:

It's been done on a very fast liner with small indicating lights. The  
more lights were on the more the more wheel spin. Front wheel speed  
was compared to rear wheel speed. Slip was controlled by the right foot.

>
> I heard rumors about a device "someone" has that simply tells the  
> driver if
> the rear wheel speed increases over the front wheel. Not a traction  
> devise,
> but  just an indicator light that comes on warning the driver to  
> let off.
>
> This sounds like a totally legal device that would make LSR safer as a
> whole. I would think spinning rear wheels are the cause of most  
> spins which are
> probably the major cause of catastrophic situations.




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