07-04-2009, 11:19 AM
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| Re: Unusual Outfits Quote:
Originally Posted by iano
As a footnote - Real Classics has an item about riding a bike with a chair:- Sidecars are asymmetric. And although they don't fall over when you get off them, they could never be described as stable. When you accelerate, the bike wants to overtake the chair, so the whole outfit slews to the left. When you brake, the chair tries to get its own back by overtaking the bike, and so you slew to the right. With the toe-in and lean-out (or is it the other way round?) set properly, the bike will manage to hold a straight line on a gentle throttle, unless you happen to be riding at one of the many harmonic speeds which set the bars flapping from side to side.
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