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Originally Posted by roadkill
Please correct me if I am wrong...but reading this made me think of a wheelbarrow....think of how you change direction with a loaded wheelbarrow....very little is required to get it to move off a straight line, just raise one handle a tiny bit.....same with rake....if the distance from the handle is short, it takes more effort to acheive the same amount of turn, conversely, if the handle is looooong, it takes a tiny amount of effort to inititiate the turn....the classic and basics of levers and leverage...same thing on a motorcycle, ne pas? Although, I wonder about the Easyrider bikes with the front wheel in another area code...how do they turn?
That is why rake and trail are so critical.
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Agree. As my bike is
only a GN250 with flat bars I assume it has longer bars than most sports bikes thus my counter steering effort is lower.
I need to read more about rake and trail ... this is the magical area of bikes, me thinks. After all there is not many other variables (other than say swing arm length).
Pete