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single contact patch

DribbleDuke

DribbleDuke

2012-01-07 23:57:00 UTC

When I ride through a turn and it feels the mostest cool, I feel I am on a single contact patch.
Most generally, i rely on the rear to be the feeling of carrying the grunt of the work on the road. Minus the front putting in extra duty on braking before turn in and on many a case up to the apex, when the work is shared equally I feel I especially did thing right.
Really too much stress at the front and just as much, too much at the rear will leave you with no contact patch. Together they can make a corner possible and when at the limit it is not a matter of can it is a matter of will.
That is what I refer to as a single contact patch.

Paddy Field

Paddy Field

2012-01-08 14:54:00 UTC

Others have had good results with Nicorette patches.

tripoddave

tripoddave

2012-01-08 17:13:00 UTC

My grandad had a dog called Patch.

KTM666

KTM666

2012-01-08 17:24:00 UTC

Post missing.

DribbleDuke

DribbleDuke

2012-01-08 20:10:00 UTC

Maybe a seance is in order.
We could contact Patch.
"Patches I'm depending on you boy, to pull the family through"
Patches, its all left up to you.

tripoddave

tripoddave

2012-01-09 00:00:00 UTC

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Razy

Razy

2012-01-09 01:55:00 UTC

Am I the only one who hasn't got a fecking clue what's going on here?! Was the first post a statement or a question?

TC's SD

TC's SD

2012-01-09 02:10:00 UTC

that's not the first thing Dribble has said that makes us scratch our head a little...?

DribbleDuke

DribbleDuke

2012-01-09 03:34:00 UTC

I may have a hard tyme putting words together to form ideas. I can assure you lucidity is present more tymes than not.
My mainest thought was that when you use a motorcycle at nearer its limit, a force that is generated upon each tyre is reaching a limit that asks that the other tyre is at an equall load. One will not handle the situation at hand.
It is a pleasure when you can feel that the loads are distributed evenly and you are at a sweet equalibrium. That is when one contact patch is how evenly the loads feel distributed.
You see this on longer corners in which you are at a maintainance throttle position that you skate through the turn with a feel of perfect balance.
Loose,planted,balanced front and rear.
I gots a little dribble from this drivel.

cdlabate

cdlabate

2012-01-09 04:46:00 UTC

I had something really clever...

There's a wocket in my pocket

DribbleDuke

DribbleDuke

2012-01-09 04:54:00 UTC

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cdlabate

cdlabate

2012-01-09 05:00:00 UTC

Post missing.