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Re: Re: Fw: Motorcycle streamliners handling woes

To: ardunbill@webtv.net, lsr350@hotmail.com"gary baker",
Subject: Re: Re: Fw: Motorcycle streamliners handling woes
From: <wmtsmith@landracing.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 18:51:29 -0400
Gary,  How would a big bob weight attached to the steering mech. ( like Cary 
with the Unacycle) affect a MC 'Liner)-- an uninformed car mind would like to 
know.  wmts
> 
> From: ardunbill@webtv.net
> Date: 2002/09/21 Sat AM 09:34:26 EDT
> To: lsr350@hotmail.com (gary baker),  land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Fw: Motorcycle streamliners handling woes
> 
> Gary, one problem I see, and I don't know the answer, is that if you
> steer the mc streamliner right to turn right, it wants to lean to the
> left, and maybe fall over to the left.  So how do you steer and correct
> these motions to get it to go the direction you want?  I agree that the
> rider on top of it would be better able to control it.  But in "Flat
> Out" Noel Pope was on top in '49 of the JAP/Brough streamliner, and
> reports it wanted to go one way, and he pushed the other with all his
> strength against the body, "like a brick wall" and it still fell over at
> about 150 or something.  However, he says the bodywork had been damaged
> in transit from England to Bonneville, and the structure was maybe
> warped by forcing the pieces together. 
> 
> The mc streamliner is really a deep subject.  Bill

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