Serious AT question
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Ran my tyres between 5 and 6 psi today, didn't stop me from coming home battered and bruised from a front tyre slipping down a bank and into a stream
Do you need Piles to film a reconstruction of the incident ???
Do you need Piles to film a reconstruction of the incident ???
I was there! Mellors was doing fine for the first three seconds .....
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Yeah nice try ..... I bet there's enough man uniform porn on the internet without trying to get Giles to film you a little something ...
Ran my tyres between 5 and 6 psi today, didn't stop me from coming home battered and bruised from a front tyre slipping down a bank and into a stream
Sounds like my waterfall mishap, last Friday
Hope you're ok
Yes mate just an elbow and hip
It was on lap 3 so took a voluntary 5 next time, I thought it would be a less painful way of achieving the inevitable
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Oh yes, air cooled monsters were well known for it
Hi Engineer: Minor differences come to mind. I have a skinny 21" front end on my 20 year old H-D softail custom and I'd say the skinny tyre gives lighter and more precise steering (for that bike anyway) as there's less rubber on the road to fight with, especially at slow speeds. You could also think of the reduced unsprung weight but I'm not convinced that would be significant unless the fat tyre was really FAT! A drawback could be that the skinny front tyre doesn't help to "self-balance" the bike in the way a fat front tyre would. Years ago, in Canada, I took part in a H-D riding competition, at a rally, involving fast figure of 8s, 90º turns, multiple s bends and a slow section. The slow section was trickiest because of the skinny front end whereas a fatter front tyre would have balanced itself easier. I did it on my bike and then my wife's heritage (much fatter front tyre) and I was much slower on hers. I came second top and the guy who won, also won it the year before, on the same bike as me - a softail custom with skinny 21" front end and a 34º rake. Unfortunately, this doesn't relate too much to the road but it's a good reference.
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