Howdy back!,
Thanks for the description. I can relate a little as I have a number of
000's of miles on a street bike. Have not raced one though but have thought
about it......shouldn't be a heck of a lot of claustrophobia there!
I tried lying on the coffee table to simulate the position and my neck
understands quite well now! The suggestion of the drag riders and the
larger eye cut on the helmets might be the ticket! Helmet guys might even
make you a special one. Pioneer the fix for Bonneville use!
Thanks for helping me understand,
Skip
At 07:42 AM 8/30/01 -0500, john robinson wrote:
>Howdy,
> Its' a stock BSA from 1967, the seat and the tank are almost on
>the same level, the handle bars/steering head stick up about 4 inches from
>that and the fairing another 6 inches or so, when I scoot my butt towards
>the rear of the seat, and drop my helmeted head down to try to lower my
>frontal area, the combination of helmet, leather jacket, eye opening in the
>helmet, basically cuts off forward view. If you were to lay down on your
>back in front of the bike, feet on the front tire, you could not see my
>eyes. lay down at a 45 degree angle to the front tire and you could, as the
>eye opening of the helmet when rotated forward gives the impression of a
>smile, the center is down, and the ends are raised. this is not just my
>problem, a lot of bikers have the same problem to cope with, we loosen the
>helmet to allow it to be rotated backwards, raising the eye opening, we
>also look to the line on the edge of the track to try to maintain a even
>distance to it. with someone with glasses, this gets harder, as the edge of
>the glasses sometimes falls at the edge of vision blocking or distorting
>vision. I could see the mile markers, as I went past them, one run I sat
>up, basically braking by increasing wind resistance, and thought "was that
>the 3 or the 2?" it was the 3, but I wasn't sure.....
>(Damn, here I am riding a bike at 95 MPH and I am admitting that I can't
>count? to say nothing of not being able to see! ohoh, I wonder how much
>trouble I am in now?
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