Re: Heavy crosswinds

[Eric Sheley <eric@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:58 AM 4/30/00 -0700, Patti Beadles wrote:
>Here's the weird thing... although I was leaning into the wind, I
>found myself constantly exerting pressure on the other bar.  Does
>that make sense?  If the wind was coming from the right, the bike
>would be leaned to the right, but I was pressing on the left bar.
>This makes no sense to me.  On my other bike, a fully faired EX500,
>I would have been constantly pressing on the right bar if the wind
>was coming from the right.  It wasn't intentional, and I don't think

Patti,

By leaning into the wind (in this case from the right) you are using lean 
angle to counteract the force of the wind. But remember that without the 
wind you would actually be in a right hand turn. So in order to maintain 
this lean angle in a straight line, you must add some input from the bars, 
in this case pressure to the left (press left - go left). What I can't 
explain is why you didn't experience this on the 500.

- - Eric




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