Danny MacAskill

[Durbs]

Oh, and when you're going at speed all bets are off... you actually steer in the opposite direction you want to go, that causes the lean into the bend and then you precess around because of the curvature of the front wheel tire along with your wheel taking up this taco shape.

Thats countersteering, much shouted about in the motorbike mags i read. I didn't believe it at first but managed to concentrate whilst blatting around the Cat and Fiddle to see what i was doing and yes, when hitting a fast left-hander i noticed i was putting weight on the left grip forcing the wheel to point right when the bike was leant over left.

They are talking about actually teaching this on the new bike test but don't see how they could teach it without casualties as its not the sort of thing you should be thinking about mid-bend!

 

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Thats countersteering, much shouted about in the motorbike mags i read. I didn't believe it at first but managed to concentrate whilst blatting around the Cat and Fiddle to see what i was doing and yes, when hitting a fast left-hander i noticed i was putting weight on the left grip forcing the wheel to point right when the bike was leant over left.

They are talking about actually teaching this on the new bike test but don't see how they could teach it without casualties as its not the sort of thing you should be thinking about mid-bend!

Yes, and with telescopic front suspension you also get an effect called 'bump steer', wherein you're going around the bend, hit a bump, i.e. a tree root, that pushes the front wheel up the forks, reducing the distance between the front and rear contact patches of the tires, and thereby the radius of curvature of turn. The rider notices this, lets off pedalling and sits up, which just so happens to coincided with the dip on the other side of the bump wherein the front wheel now extends, increasing the radius of curvature and because they've sat up, the height of the CofG. At bicycle speeds this can become oscillatory, and before he knows it he's into a 'tank slapper', then a tree.

 

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Ha Ha.

Used to walk past it every day and think if that the frosted glass was not there it would be some great perving opportunities at the lassies bouncing breests.

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Cannot stop listening to that sound track now - The funeral by Band of Horses

 

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Can not stop listening to that sound track now - The funeral by Band of Horses