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MINIMUM: Rake: 20 degrees; Trail: 2 inches [5.08 centimeters] positive. Manufacturer's specifications must include the specific rake and trail for each motorcycle or class of motorcycles and the terms "rake" and "trail" must be defined by the director by rules adopted pursuant to chapter 28–32."
Caster angle and trail both influence the steering, albeit in different ways: caster tends to add damping, while trail adds "feel" and returnability. The caster wheel on shopping carts are an extreme case – the system is undamped but stable, as the wheel oscillates around the "correct" path. The construction has relatively high trail, but no ...
Trail can be increased by increasing the wheel size, decreasing the head angle, or decreasing the fork rake. The more trail a traditional bike has, the more stable it feels, [41] although too much trail can make a bike feel difficult to steer. Bikes with negative trail (where the contact patch is in front of where the steering axis intersects ...
A motorcycle fork is the portion of a motorcycle that holds the front wheel and allows one to steer. For handling, the front fork is the most critical part of a motorcycle. The combination of rake and trail determines how stable the motorcycle is. The 'fork' on a motorcycle consists of multiple components.
Motorcycle testing and measurement includes a range of more than two dozen statistics giving the specifications of the motorcycle, and the actual performance, expressed by such things as the output of the engine, and the top speed or acceleration of the motorcycle. Most parameters are uncontroversial and claims made by manufacturers are ...
A motorcycle fork connects a motorcycle's front wheel and axle to its frame, typically via a yoke, also known as a triple clamp, which consists of an upper yoke joined to a lower yoke via a steering stem, a shaft that runs through the steering head, creating the steering axis.
Too much trail makes a bicycle feel difficult to turn. Road racing bicycle forks have an offset of 40–55 mm. [ 2 ] For touring bicycles and other designs, the frame's head angle and wheel size must be taken into account when determining offset, and there is a narrow range of acceptable offsets to give good handling characteristics.
Hi, I've been reading the articles concerning fork rake, and there's a fascinating section concerning it on Pages 33-34 of Mike Burrows book "Bicycle design" (Published 2004 Pedal Press, ISBN 0-9520603-2-9), which references a work called "Motorcycle Chassis Design" by Foale and Willoughby (apparently now out of print so I can't reference it ...