Re: [ST] Paint, Western Rallye, Ken's interesting comments..

[Thomas Emberson <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

first of all, don't want to beet this to death. And we simply look
at different situations differently, but we see some situations
the same. 

On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, David Earl wrote:

> "But IIRC people where talking about about going in braking, then a
> sharper turn and accelerating out through the apex"
> 
> It's not a "sharper" turn. As taught by Keith Code, the "Quicker" you
> change direction the less lean angle is required. In my experience this
> is true.

But, the quicker a bike turns, the more lean. simple fact of physics,
the quicker a bike turns, mean more centripetal force, which means
that you have to move the centre of gravity of the rider/bike
towards the centre of the radius. So either you increase the lean,
or more you ass further off the bike. Unfortunately I saw the effect
when my ST tried to make a real quick left hand turn :-) Sorry
Bill.

> road around a blind corner you're not expecting. What happens is you see
> the debris, panic because your precious clean track is gone and you
> tighten up, brake, or both,  perhaps landing yourself on your head.  Not

Okay, my first point was that I have decent enough skills that I
can handle that.

> to mention riding on the inside track going around a corner greatly
> increases the chance of running out of road if you've mis-judged your

umm,errr that is the whole idea of riding the inside track is

a) if you take the race line your speed will be a bit higher.

b) by going through a corner in the inside lane by default you have
extra pavement before running out of road. That was my point. When
in the outside lane you have 18-24 (FWIR) before you are on gravel
or in the oncoming lane, no?

> speed. (BTW there could be lots of runoff debris  in corners following
> rains in the mountains around the rally so everybody be careful. We've
> had enough offs lately )

This is very true.

Tom

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