While driving SBK Superbike, old stuff that i read, but never applied
on the road (was not into racing, apart a racing school) came to me as
a flash. Remember Cycle Guide (Honda guide as they called it), Cycle
and Motorcyclist ? These were my bibles, got something like 500 of them
that I bought from mid to late 80's, and they were talking about rake
and trail.
Which I understood, but when you're on a low budget, changing these
values
unless you have a machine shop, was impossible...
But I remember that, if you change the rake only, by going steeper
(going closer
to vertical). Apart changing how the bike will react to direction input,
and how
stable or not it will be at high speed, there's something important that
could be
done with it.
Let's say you're entering a corner, the bike dive, and you're going a
bit to fast
in that corner. If you apply brake in the front slightly, keeping what's
left of
traction, and the bike dive even more (let's call it positive reaction),
then I'm
almost certain that changing the rake angle will affect this behavior
More rake
(steeper) then it dives even more, much less it could actually do the
contrary.
By having the correct amount of rake, could have a neutral situation
where
when applying the brake slightly, the bike would stay on the same axis.
Am I right or wrong ? Just asking....
Eric
http://www.racesimcentral.net/
btw, I did a superb animation screenshot, a huge wheelie
at Assen without loosing it. As soon as my page is done
on SBK Superbike, i'll announce it here
Cheers
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