Don't feel alone or bad, No One but ice spiked racers and MX bikes in vertical dirt ruts straight steering and pulling sideways laid over wheelies have an idea of what Ms Peel delivers on plain pavement and not even on full street tires.
Ms Peel has 3 rod links. I can not upset 'her' by going in too fast or too sharp. I can not enter turns fast enough on other sport bikes to have enough energy to even practice the lines I use in such glee on Ms Peel. Ms Peel does not go out of control when she losses traction at front or rear or both at once, she just enters another faster-funner phase of turning harsher. She has 3 phases more beyond elite road racer and flat tracker limits. The 3 rod links cancel All the resonances that are splishing and splashing back into frame, forks and tire patches. I can feel the tire patch interaction down to the quantum level of Van der Wall forces and hydrogen bonds in the rubber hysteria and surface adhesion. I can tell humidly and temperature erects rather distinctly on Ms Peel but not nearly as well on other cycles. To go so much faster around than fat tire corner cripples requires putting down more power in turns that other cycles, no matter their hp level. At least when turns require 45' or more.
I think the extra grip factor is a combo of the longer profile of narrow tires plus the dampening of the tire pulses forward, inline with both the isolastic power unit mounts. I know I can loose hill climb best on Ms Peel because she just grips and goes while other craft I try just spin if that much acceleration attempted. Same when leaned, I have to be careful on sports bikes but not on Ms Peel, I know she will stay in grip unless I really Force her to break free.
I Really have to force Peel to break free in turns, by going rather harsher in full stick than other motorcycles can tolerate, then NAILING more lean or power.
Factory 52-54 BF makes the power unit bounce up/dn at front pivoting on rear isolastic. Somewhere into the 70' BF orbital should become round to share more motion with the rear isolastic. Somewhere in the 90's BF orbitals should be mostly fro/aft, in plane of both isolastics And the rear tire thrusts. My sense is the iso's take up the impulses and dish it to tire patch in slower impacts it can transfer to the ground grip. At some point I may try 110% BF.
If you are not familiar with Cdo hinged handling onsets, then above is academic as tire grip is not much an issue till beyond sweeper hinged onset loading. If you are not familiar with over powering front or rear tires then not much to gain or tell on the BF effects on traction, just how comfortable to ride. If not for the rump rod + 2 helpers- nothing about Ms Peel makes much sense. I hope to surprise the world someday, especially me. I got forced into wild nothing to lose states then took class to practice those in safer conditions, I'm not speculating on advantage of Ms Peel, but don't know how much better she might yet be with various experiments in crank mass and BF. Then playing with iso rubber compliance adding or subtracting rubber area front and back. I now suspect less rubber in front and heavier set in rear might be best.
