Is grinding my footbaords when turning good or bad?
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RE: Is grinding my footbaords when turning good or bad?
ORIGINAL: Megalomania
I beg to differ. If you move so that you're always perpindicular to the riding surface, you change the center of gravity and can make a tighter turn. If you lean with the bike, you scrape sooner/easier.
ORIGINAL: fishheadsaid
If you are leaning with your bike, you must be taking those curves pretty fast to scrape. -fish
If you are leaning with your bike, you must be taking those curves pretty fast to scrape. -fish
you lean to the inside of the turn with the bike or even _more_ than the bike, which _does_change the center of gravity, but instead of causing you to scrape sooner, it allows you to make a sharper turn while leaning the bike _less_.
staying "perpendicular" to the roadway, as you wrote above, would cause you to have to push the bike down further to make a turn, which would make the bike scrape sooner.
you can get more information here: http://www.soundrider.com/archive/sa...ng_unglued.htm or
http://www.evilpumpkinracing.com/blog/?cat=5
the image to consider is this one:
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RE: Is grinding my footbaords when turning good or bad?
i think you are just out riding your bike. i almost wrecked once when i had been riding a taller bike that i could really lean over, then got on my heritage. i took a corner at a speed that the other bike could handle, but i couldnt lean the dam softail over that far.
i drug the floorboard all the way around an almost off the road.
the softails will lean lots more over, but the boards prevent it. thats my number 1 complaint with them.
i drug the floorboard all the way around an almost off the road.
the softails will lean lots more over, but the boards prevent it. thats my number 1 complaint with them.
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RE: Is grinding my footbaords when turning good or bad?
ORIGINAL: Megalomania
I beg to differ. If you move so that you're always perpindicular to the riding surface, you change the center of gravity and can make a tighter turn. If you lean with the bike, you scrape sooner/easier.
ORIGINAL: fishheadsaid
If you are leaning with your bike,you must be taking those curves pretty fast to scrape. -fish
If you are leaning with your bike,you must be taking those curves pretty fast to scrape. -fish
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RE: Is grinding my footbaords when turning good or bad?
Its normal or you arent having any fun.
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RE: Is grinding my footbaords when turning good or bad?
ORIGINAL: spike95
Staying upright may be fine for a quick little manuever to dodge something in the road or in a parking lot, but I must beg to differ with you. I HAVE to lean so that my pipes don't scrape too much through a fast right turn. If I were to stay upright and do the same speed, I would have been flipped by now. Leaning brings the center of gravity down into the turn, not the bike. I can take turns way faster without ever touching when I lean and hang my butt off the seat into a turn. Why do you think the superbike riders scrape their knees through a turn? It's so the bike can remain more upright and keep the tread to the road.
ORIGINAL: Megalomania
I beg to differ. If you move so that you're always perpindicular to the riding surface, you change the center of gravity and can make a tighter turn. If you lean with the bike, you scrape sooner/easier.
ORIGINAL: fishheadsaid
If you are leaning with your bike,you must be taking those curves pretty fast to scrape. -fish
If you are leaning with your bike,you must be taking those curves pretty fast to scrape. -fish
ORIGINAL: Megalomania
It's seems counterintuitive but I guess I can't argue with those pictures. I'm big enough to admit I'm wrong lol.
It's seems counterintuitive but I guess I can't argue with those pictures. I'm big enough to admit I'm wrong lol.
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