Hallo all, after a trip of two hours on my Yamaha Xmax 250 I really started thinking. Man, my back was nearly broken! I have had this complaint already a few...
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Koen Van de Kerckhove <nestofdragons@...> Mon, 2 Jul 2007 11:10:10 ... The minimal solutions are - Rig up backrests for you and your pillion. Look at...
Thanks for the quick replies. Graham, seems like creative persons are always busy with the same stuff: Working hard on things to make life easy. ;^) Happy...
Hallo, being a scooter-user I had some nasty surprises ont he road. I need to drive several km on a highway FILLED with trucks. Man, riding on that highway is...
Julian, thanks for the link to Utopia. Why reinvent the wheel when it has been done before. But ... it is not mentioned on the site where they are located....
As some have already found out, I have written up the Italian job on Bikeweb. <Feet Forward to?Florence>?There are a small number of photos there too. I hope...
http://www.eurospares.com/graphics/fred_ergo/ Koen, that's the folder on my website that houses the various images of Fred, as well as Rhino and DXF drawings. ...
Hi, Guys, from the sub-Group 'FF Lurkers'. Popped into the Anglesey Circuit - (secondary name Ty Croes) a week ago, for the first time in a couple of years and...
Posted by: "Koen Van de Kerckhove" nestofdragons@... said: At first I want to save my scooter as much as possible. I don't want to get problems with...
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Looks like September is too busy with other events such as Quasar meet so may have to delay it until October. BBC2's Top Gear program April 1988, The FEET...
The more aerodynamic your machine is, the more it is affected by air conditions. Naturally enough, as a machine with rubbish aerodynamics just batters through...
... Well done lesson Andy! The weird part of the ECOMOBILE ride is that an unseen wind causes the ECO to steer itself toward the wind (which sets the bike up...
... With long links like this it is easier to paste them in sections into http://tinyurl.com/ first, especially when the link wraps into more than 2 lines as...
The weird part of the ECOMOBILE ride is that an unseen wind causes the ECO to steer itself toward the wind (which sets the bike up nicely for fighting the...
... Yes, but explain to me how that can be. The relatively heavy BMW engine is near the back and the Eco has a plan view shape very much like a truncated...
... Dan, As a measure of how much side force the Eco generates (which is quite different from whether it is stable), how far over does it lean in strong cross...
... Andrew, I'm sure we've gone over this before... (Ian, come back, all is forgiven...) Tony has a picture in his book which shows how much more than a...
... I think we have to consider more than one effect. The CP is above the ground plane so the side wind leans the bike away from the wind. This will induce a...
Top post on purpose as I'm not commenting on the contents of the post... Andy, Would it be worth putting this on bikeweb, I'll read it when I get a bit more...
snip ... And hope the truck doesn't stop in a hurry... ... It seems that the Eco has balanced the side area so it is self correcting. I found a large front...
... I think it only works if you send it that way. Doesn't work if it is already broken up by wrapping. See what happened above? I'm using Outlook and it...
Andrew said: <<expect the CoP to be well forward of mid length and that it could generate a lot of 'lift'. Something does not compute here....>>> Agreed - it...
... Which is what the Quasar did in spades - ultra-stable, or more precisely auto-stable in that it required no rider input to be stable. But two problems: 1)...