Serious question

[dnos]

Keith Code

read this:
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...wist+wrist+pdf

[WRT]

One other thing - as you lean over the contact point between bike and tarmac moves, into the corner. You lean right, the bike rolls onto the right side of the tyre. Hanging off the bike allows your body weight to keep the COG in line with that contact patch. The wider the tyres, the more the contact patch moves, and the more you would have to either lean over or hang off in order to keep the combined COG in line with it (bearing in mind that the COG is combined for both you and the bike, and is affected by gravity itself and the g-forces pushing you outwards on the corner).

Hence, the skinnier the tyre, the less weight you have to shift inwards to compensate for this shift (or, conversely, the faster you can go round a corner for a given lean angle).

Naturally, we are only talking a few mm that the contact point is shifting, but due to "leverage" it can make a big difference up where the rider is sitting, and can add a few KPH onto how quickly you can go around the corner at max lean angle.

[SwanTiger]

Didn't John Britton (or whatever his name is) develop a way to harness and manage the benefits and side effects of having a front and rear of equal size?

[Crasherfromwayback]

Because it would look like a Van-Van

Except the 125 which was my first ever bike! Smaller front than rear....

[86GSXR]

Keith Code

read this:
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...wist+wrist+pdf

Brilliant! Thanks! I'll definitely get myself a copy.

[MisterD]

You're a man with some disposable Finn, buy one of these and try it out...

[Indiana_Jones]

A serious question on KB?

send it to PD!!!!

-Indy

[CB ARGH]

My diagnosis is that there is a smaller tyre on the front to improve the aerodynamics of the motorcycle. I would much rather the wind hit the radiator rather than the front wheel.

EDIT: Holy shit that is a bump.