biker_reject said:
That's my wife. She almost dropped it right after I snapped the pic!
you built a bike that must be very close to spontaneous instability ,anybody familiar enough with how a motorcycle remains stable but will go through a chicane with such little effort can see that.they are in most cases already close enough to spontaneous instability to give the designers no reason to tease a venomous snake there is no reason to tread ground that holds danger the further we go there is no positives gained going so far
how can i say its ,its almost like walking across a frozen lake with an island in the middle shod in red hot shoes surely sinking and drowning will be swift but it isnt so surely they will stop on the island they can see the melting and steam but on they go, safely reaching the other side does this mean it is a safe act to walk shod in red hot shoes across a frozen lake oh yes of course it proves all !!!
the next day a man twice the weight all other possible contributing factors to the journey remain identical ,the twice heavy man sinks and drowns just as he is nearly on the island
the extreme danger is never totally gone ,see,it lays latent instead,how close a traveler journeys is what becomes the factor ,
how do i know any of this most of what i have learned is ready technical articles that are held up as contain pure fact
other is personal excperience
1983 my race bike enduro mx and anything dirt really
a can-an 250 mx6 which i was racing at the expert/pro level needed the sterering neck of the frame repaired
most machines at that time dirt were 27degrees that is the number i used and how i got there from the same reference point a mfg uses is of no concern here i had heard about head shake on the some bikes wilst in a braking section with bumps this was more prevelent in the2nd generation single shock era
i used a level surface suspension travel gently topped out for the 0 point at 27 i could see the head angle was steeper than stock i realized the snake can sting me i knew i could bring it back a degree if needed ...1 degree !b 1 degree makes a significant change in trail with the same triple offset
and voila it had handling quirks that i learned to deal with only because it turned so goddam good head shake oh yes it would but only very rarely like going expert fast on a steep rocky down so steep it would make a novice puke
or entering a sand wash in 4th or faster and foolishly ever chopping the throttle or even foolish enough not to go wot on the pipe the remainder of the wash
head shake imagine the hand grips shaking and grown to the size of mayonaise jars,and the bike literally rattling back and forth into the kneecups in yer leathers bad headshake is like that just before you are spit off
the bike 27 degree bike was very sensitive to rear preload or height i had to get the sag just so to keep the head shake demon in the bag for long periods it handled beautifully but at 26 it probably would have been unridable without less offset in the clamps
i won a national enduro overall on that bike
how you have staid out of spontaneous instability is a mystery you are so close it made me shiver to see that great looking lady on there hot fast pavement is seroius stuff
for me it was enough knowledge to be aware at the time.... for you
it was not science or knowledge just shear butt loads of dumb luck,to modify a machine that has unarguably been brought a lot lot closer to spontaneoius instability than can be called sane ,nothing was gained it does not handle safely or better
a lighter rider only magnifies the issue by what factor bah !! fuck that !just lett her see if it is or not ....
selling the bike to have somebody else ride as it is and dont i care if its your wife or a stranger in my mind it is criminally neglegent act with an asyteric i guess the criminally neglegent act has been the result or lets say enabled by, an an astoundingly acute level of ignorance and pure dumb luck
