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1. Re: Race bike Stability and Safety (score: 1): Author: ardunbill@webtv.net; Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 12:12:52 -0400 (EDT); Gary, lotta good food for thought there. I imagine the GP bike designers merely reduce rake and trail to get the quick-turning characteristics they want. With a road bike we want the best combination; /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00169.html (8,131 bytes)
2. Re: Race bike Stability and Safety (score: 1): Author: "gary baker" <lsr350@hotmail.com>; Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 00:03:49 +1000; I have read recently that today's GP motorcycles have moved from the traditional mc steering that keeps a high degree of inherent stability, to a steering geometry that has none of that, but requires; /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00170.html (10,612 bytes)
3. RE: Race bike Stability and Safety (score: 1): Author: "Waldron, James" <James.Waldron@CWUSA.COM>; Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 15:15:43 -0400; correctly weighted model should suffice. Last line is the kicker. "There is a relatively simple test that you can use on a model rocket to determine the stability. Tie a string around the body tube; /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00202.html (9,441 bytes)
4. RE: Race bike Stability and Safety (score: 1): Author: Higginbotham Land Speed Racing <saltrat@pro-blend.com>; Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 14:43:08 -0500; Don't forget that the rocket is upright and a car/bike is horizontal. And it will work if you weigh the vehicle and locate the CG having already known the CP. Skip; /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00203.html (9,361 bytes)
5. RE: Race bike Stability and Safety (score: 1): Author: "Waldron, James" <James.Waldron@CWUSA.COM>; Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 16:09:55 -0400; Yeah. The CG has always seemed pretty easy (especially since I found that the state department of weights and measures will loan me a certified scale good up to 2000lbs). It was always trying to cal; /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00206.html (9,470 bytes)
6. RE: Race bike Stability and Safety (score: 1): Author: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@pro-blend.com>; Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 16:01:16 -0500; That should work. Also if have a large side view photo of the car you could do that with the photo?? Cut out the car first...... I did that with my car (photo) and it is very close. You can also scal; /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00210.html (9,314 bytes)
7. RE: Race bike Stability and Safety (score: 1): Author: "Waldron, James" <James.Waldron@CWUSA.COM>; Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 17:04:14 -0400; Oooooo! Hadn't thought of taking a picture and cutting it out! What a great idea! Thanks, Jim. That should work. Also if have a large side view photo of the car you could do that with the photo?? Cut; /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00212.html (9,004 bytes)
8. Re: Race bike Stability and Safety (score: 1): Author: "DrMayf" <drmayf@teknett.com>; Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 16:03:31 -0700; As I mentioned in another post, I see no reason that this would work. CG, maybe. CP, maybe not. If you have any supporting information as to why anyone does think it works, let me know so I can inves; /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00221.html (9,186 bytes)
9. RE: Race bike Stability and Safety (score: 1): Author: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>; Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 18:31:10 -0500; If you do use the photo trick, make sure you use a telephoto lens to compress the perspective distortion. Otherwise, whatever is nearer to the lense looks larger. Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ; /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00226.html (8,598 bytes)
10. Re: Race bike Stability and Safety (score: 1): Author: "Bryan A. Savage Jr" <basavage@earthlink.net>; Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 22:16:50 -0700; We're talking aeroDYNAMICS here. I'll bet the CP moves around DYNAMICALLY as speed and attitude change. I was wondering, if it was easy then why have several aircraft companies had to modify a design; /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00231.html (8,682 bytes)
11. Re: Race bike Stability and Safety (score: 1): Author: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@pro-blend.com>; Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 08:26:46 -0500; OK then......weather vane principal. CG is the pivot. How much "variable" area (force?) to put aft of the CG so that the moment is strong enough the make the vehicle tend to run into the wind and sti; /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00237.html (9,988 bytes)
12. Re: Race bike Stability and Safety (score: 1): Author: "DrMayf" <drmayf@teknett.com>; Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 07:05:58 -0700; As one of my associates in the Space Station Program once said...look for the blue tennis ball in the box of white ones. He meant thatif you can find one problem then the proposed solution is suspect; /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00245.html (11,398 bytes)
13. RE: Race bike Stability and Safety (score: 1): Author: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>; Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 10:32:01 -0500; It isn't easy but at least it's a start. ... and it's better than a WAG. Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ We're talking aeroDYNAMICS here. I'll bet the CP moves around DYNAMICALLY as speed and attitude chan; /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00251.html (9,309 bytes)
14. Re: Race bike Stability and Safety (score: 1): Author: "Bryan A. Savage Jr" <basavage@earthlink.net>; Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 11:32:36 -0700; That's true Neil. At least the people on this list know that the subject exists and I think it's important just to keep it in mind. Bryan /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.te; /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00256.html (8,806 bytes)
15. RE: Race bike Stability and Safety (score: 1): Author: "Waldron, James" <James.Waldron@CWUSA.COM>; Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 14:52:09 -0400; Darn if this isn't an interesting discussion. Data from the NASA site pasted below my uninformed rant. Well - if you took a 55 gallon drum and glued it to the front of a packing crate with the same l; /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00265.html (12,836 bytes)
16. Re: Race bike Stability and Safety (score: 1): Author: "DrMayf" <drmayf@teknett.com>; Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 16:28:46 -0700; Well, ya'll keep on thinking that you can hang a paper cutout and find CP. What you find in the center of gravity of the paper cutout. What if the rocket has 3 fins how do you make that cut? In four; /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00271.html (8,954 bytes)
17. Re: Race bike Stability and Safety (score: 1): Author: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@pro-blend.com>; Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:42:57 -0500; Howard, you can't get off that easy......excellent information points. Thank you. (I am shortening the nose on the "Rose" by the way) Skip (-:; /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00279.html (9,688 bytes)
18. Fw: Race bike Stability and Safety (score: 1): Author: "Nafzger" <nafzger@vtc.net>; Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 20:07:46 -0700; Sorry, I forgot to delete the trailer. latent a virtually if <land-speed@autox.team.net> "variable" the on to; /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00280.html (11,289 bytes)
19. RE: Race bike Stability and Safety (score: 1): Author: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>; Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 11:31:37 -0500; As far as mid-engine "sports" cars are concerned, I'm afraid Landa is pretty far off in his CP location. Those cars typically have 60% of the weight on the rear wheels, so their CG is pretty far aft; /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00299.html (8,432 bytes)

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