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Re: [ST] TT PS2 game TO Steering Technique



 It also depends on how you're holding your tongue and the angle of the sun at the time...
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:44:14 -0700
Subject: Re: [ST] TT PS2 game TO Steering Technique


Yeah, it's more of a "subconscious balance" thing.  My body knows what to do 
when the speed goes from slow in a real tight curve to increasing speed 
coming out but still curving.  There is a steering transition moment.  I 
have never tried to hold the speed at that point while turning.  I am either 
accelerating or decelerating through that point.  I guess the amount of lean 
is a critical factor as well.  Decelerating to just near that transition 
point on maybe  a 15 mph (motorcycle speed, not by road sign) curves is not 
my favorite part of riding the twisties.  A tad slower and you steer like a 
tricycle, a hair faster and you countersteer.   There is a sense of 
awkwardness and imbalance that isn't there at any other time.
  It is the place where space, time, balance and speed intersect.  In other 
words, the fabled Fourth Dimension!

YEEE HAAA


I need to go for a ride.

Stephen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Knowles" <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: [ST] TT PS2 game TO Steering Technique


>
> On Apr 13, 2006, at 6:38 AM, Masiak, Richard wrote:
>
>> Oh, ok.  Now I see.  That only works when you're going real slooow.  I
>> never really experimented to see where the speed threshold is.
>
> Since at low speeds pushing on the right steers left, but at higher
> speeds pushing on the right steers right (countersteering), there must
> be some magic speed where pushing on the right does nothing and the
> bike just continues to go straight, or maybe it falls over. I've always
> wondered about this.
>
> Matt Knowles - Ferndale, CA -
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