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Re: Motorcycle streamliners handling woes

To: Russel Mack <rtmack@concentric.net>,
Subject: Re: Motorcycle streamliners handling woes
From: W S Potter <wester6935@attbi.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 00:46:35 -0700
Get some from Jim Deist.  Those would already have ALL the stretch pulled
out of them.

Wes

on 9/25/02 9:31 PM, Russel Mack at rtmack@concentric.net wrote:

> Skip:
> could I borrow the suspenders from your fire suit?
> Russ
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-land-speed@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-land-speed@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Skip Higginbotham
> Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 12:04 PM
> To: Dick J
> Cc: land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Fw: Motorcycle streamliners handling woes
> 
> 
> Now I suppose that we could ask Don Vesco......he might know.......
> I just don't understand how putting a body on a motorcycle can make it hard
> to handle?????? If the geometry is the same it should handle the
> same....Russ Mack's liner will have the rider on his stomach....if he can
> figure out a safety harness system that will work...
> Skip
> 
> 
> 
> At 09:12 AM 9/22/02 -0700, you wrote:
>> It seems like it would handle better if it were designed for the driver
>> (rider?) to lay prone on his stomach rather than reclined rearward.  Then
> it
>> could be handled like a plain old snow sled, or like belly surfing. It
> would
>> respond to body movement and input more like a normal motorcycle.
>> Dick J

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