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The Bendix Company built a rear-wheel steering bicycle, and the U.S. Department of Transportation commissioned the construction of a rear-wheel steering motorcycle: both proved to be unrideable. Rainbow Trainers, Inc. in Alton, Illinois, offered US$5,000 to the first person "who can successfully ride the rear-steered bicycle, Rear Steered ...
Bike geometry parameters: wheelbase, steering axis angle, fork offset, and trail. Bicycle and motorcycle geometry is the collection of key measurements (lengths and angles) that define a particular bike configuration. Primary among these are wheelbase, steering axis angle, fork offset, and trail.
Vehicle dynamics is the study of vehicle motion, e.g., how a vehicle's forward movement changes in response to driver inputs, propulsion system outputs, ambient conditions, air/surface/water conditions, etc. Vehicle dynamics is a part of engineering primarily based on classical mechanics.
A National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study showed that rider lean has a larger influence on a lighter motorcycle than a heavier one, [29] which helps explain why no-hands steering is less effective on heavy motorcycles. Leaning the torso with respect to the bike does not cause the bike to lean far enough to generate anything but the ...
This article should really be called bicycle and motorcycle steering geometry. The "geometry" of a bicycle also refers to the length of its various tubes, which is of more concern for ergonomic fit than for its effect on handling characteristics. -- pde 23:30, 13 December 2006 (UTC) Those other parameters could certainly be added.
Vandenbrink Carver (1F1T) Tripendo recumbent tricycle, a tilting three-wheeler (2F3T) Yamaha Niken from 2018 UWM PantherTrike, a narrow-track, tilting, recumbent, human-powered trike (1F3T) A tilting three-wheeler , tilting trike , leaning trike , or even just tilter , is a three-wheeled vehicle and usually a narrow-track vehicle whose body and ...
American Flat Track is an American motorcycle racing series. [1] The racing series, founded and sanctioned by the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) in 1954, originally encompassed five distinct forms of competitions including mile dirt track races, half-mile, short-track, TT steeplechase and road races .
As the forks dive the steering geometry of the bike also changes making the bike more nervous, and inversely on acceleration becomes more lazy. Also, having the steering working through the forks causes problems with stiction, decreasing the effectiveness of the suspension. The length of the typical motorcycle fork means that they act as large ...