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I was wondering if anyone knows why Norton moved the front disc to the left side in '75 as it was on the right in previous years?
Bruce MacGregor said:It seems they never figured as to where the steering wheel should go in their automobiles or which way around the round about the rest of the world drives?
So how would they know about brakes!
Bruce MacGregor said:It seems they never figured as to where the steering wheel should go in their automobiles or which way around the round about the rest of the world drives?
So how would they know about brakes!
Sorry, It's a cold winter here! I cant even finish doing my Duc's valve shims. Burr!!!!!
Bruce MacGregor said:It seems they never figured as to where the steering wheel should go in their automobiles
Mr.Sparks said:Bruce MacGregor said:It seems they never figured as to where the steering wheel should go in their automobiles or which way around the round about the rest of the world drives?
So how would they know about brakes!
Sorry, It's a cold winter here! I cant even finish doing my Duc's valve shims. Burr!!!!!
Rest of the world?
Ever been to Japan, India, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Australia or Scotland to name a few?
Ever seen the braking on a Formula 1 car, most of the development for these is done in the UK.
Ahhh, those Scots.......
hobot said:I've heard brake switch to LH was to help avoid tendency to drift L hands off, which makes some sense to me as Peel allowed observing the effects of gravity pulling on fork assymetric mass so LH brake tends to rotate forks to L side which at counter steering speeds tends to turn cycle to the R thus nullifying L drift - more or less. Me or someone should try hands off with and w/o brake on either side to get some sense of my conjecture. All my cycles are indefinitely down for the count.
gtsun said:I've never had Mkiii but I do know that something about the wheel bearing retainer or something is a reverse thread so you can not safely just turn the wheel around to move it from the left to the right side... Please anyone wanting to do this look into it first. Personally I hate the look of the caliper out front of the fork & always wondered why Ducati did it after having them behind the forks on the early 750 & 900 SS & Gt's as well as Moto Guzzi with the switch from back to front on the LeMans.. It's so ugly with the calipers out front to me.