06-02-2008, 04:02 PM
BLINGMW Wrote:yeah, that was a pretty bad ass video, especially the jumphock:
Apoc Wrote:Twice the traction (or more when you look at contact patch) will always win if power/weight are comparable.
He said the only place he made it up was on braking, it didn't look like he had twice the traction/grip, to me, in the corners. Assuming a similar tire compound (which, I'm sure, they were different), wouldn't their cornering speeds be similar? I'm also guessing the bike could have been braking later and harder, but maybe the rider just didn't want to die?
Braking is a function of grip, both tires on the ground and the pads on the rotor. The car has more of everything. There was a TopGear test of an Ariel Atom against some bike and the Atom won because of the braking but it still had more traction in the corners too.
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Evan Wrote:Apoc Wrote:How many $4000 Caterhams are there out there?about as many $4k ducatis
Have you looked at prices on used Monsters?
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth