Leanometer

Neat handling performance recorder to pass around or keep to yourself. There's plenty of room to stick a knee out till about 55' then angle get too tight. Delete if too much an advertisement .

http://www.leanometer.com/

Sounds like a great new way to get yourself into more trouble than you ordinarily would on your own. My leanometer is built into the toe of my $30.00 sneakers.

I had one in the nineties on my T309 sat on the fanny pad ,she was a hairdresser from Kilmarnock.ran about with her for ages and she only stabbed me once! P.M.T they said.
When she left she took all my best T shirts and the spare keys for the bike. Living in Salt Lake City now she is.

Very happy days

Yep those lean0meters are great for the moment but try to share em with others it gets confusing. I creep up on leans as tire and nerves warm till surprise toe nips I pull feet back to get a bit more over w/o wear/tear. IF i had my durthers I'd love one those twin GPS units the record drift and skew angles too. No question though it trying to make meters show more you are risking life and limb and cycle parts and tickets etc more so than just normal riding to survive. If ya all had behaved yourselves early on how interesting would be your feedback? Someday may sink in all cyclists are in denial.

Does this gizmo function like a turn and bank indicator, and tell me if I am in a skid?

No response is expected.

Slick

Hm good question if it can cover traction loss skews and drifts and reason I'm not buying this gadget but holding out for type that does record drifts and skews and slides and jumps and landings. Peel and I are outlaws not allowed in road race events so only way to find some pecking orders will be via shared instrument recorders and seeing if the local tract instructors can keep Peel in their camera range. I've tried forward looking video on Trixie and my car on THE Grit but front view mostly just shows smoothly going around turns or switching lanes while rear view mirror view shows jerking and wagging like a dog's tail with rocks and dust and road grooves left in wake. The hi end performance meters cost $1000's so many have to talk major magazine to put on Peel to see what it reveals for my bragging rights on old push rod rubber baby buggy.

texasSlick said:

Does this gizmo function like a turn and bank indicator, and tell me if I am in a skid?

No response is expected.

Slick

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This leaometer can do every god dam thing even tell you the time of day ,


Boy Hobot sure loves showing off on the gravel.

Ugh ya don't get away with much leaning on The Grit nor using forks to steer in the usual road going sense or get my ass bashed any time I forget it and even when fully aware taking care SPLAT. I can accept my falls somewhat easier knowing my more sane seasoned buddy Wes has been taken down more than I have over last year or so. Wonder if it can record crash G forces. I hope Peel can lean past 55' on solid surfaces though.

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This leaometer can do every god dam thing even tell you the time of day ,


Boy Hobot sure loves showing off on the gravel.[/quote]

Saw this exact same thing happen on a bicycle when we where kids. A friend of ours was testing his front wheel repair by doing wheelies. Being sympathetic kids my buddy and I laughed so hard we couldn't even stand up.

Our gang extended bicycle forks to spring on down the road till they broke off- but this leanometer only measures side leans so holding out for better.

Obtain some racing slicks and enjoy leaning over like Marquez leans to 63-4 degrees; :? :shock: :roll:



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The Wonders of modern Tecnology : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyYn5nkNHBY .

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CRIKEY , these sidecarists lean to 90 degrees . :shock: :wink:

Matt Spencer said:

The Wonders of modern Tecnology : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyYn5nkNHBY .

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for the next 007 James Bond movie :?: :roll:

Yep I'm up on the 64' degree leaning on fasto tires and biggest reason I call em corner cripples and Peel is lifted. I only mentioned 55' as that's with the crash cage fitted for daily use in public. When those fatso tires get that much on edge their patch profile changes/reduces and they can't hold grip enough off fouling pegs to pull sideways wheelies like Peel loved to do, *must to my surprise at 1st as intended to break free to swing around some like supermotards but instead front swings around even sharper accelerating not heasitating with tire slippage. Guess why Leanometers are on my mind. I can go almost as fast and sharp around on THE Gravel on Peel but of course that don't involve much leaning and for sure nil front tire effectiveness everyone and their sister thinks is what actually steers a motorcycle - and does > on corner cripples, poor things. I could not get dimmed tunnel vision G's on turning moderns so was shocked that Peel didn't need body athletics to hang on but fighter pilot breath force to keep focus on next fling point. My SuVee set up on warmed race tires can routinely leave hot shot sports bikes in the dust in the twists but has so little power I can get passed in short opens and never catch up again but can not even practice Peels rates of entry and lines in turns or all hell breaks loose so have completely given up on the 'fantastic road missiles' to have my type fun on. Truly I've found nothing but nothing can hold a candle to the isolastic Commando, once tamed so no rebound on frame spring backs - that is also a big mystery on the moderns they ain't solved yet and never will with the type concepts they are limited too- pashaw only two phases in their little book of handling tricks. Peel got so far ahead of these hot shots on long opens out of twisties they never caught up with us unless i let off and braked before a blind crest knowing what I've encountered there and they'd pass into oncomming lane like it was life-death contest to them while just joy ride fun on Peel. I got higher standards than rest of the world thankyou and only need some objective number to possible change the direction of cycle development, Peel is that good not me.

She is lean. I think that's Rolly Free's grand daughter, could be wrong!

Now there's an idea, hang a soft material breast shaped boob on to watch swing this way and that! My wife says I'd look silly with just one breast in the breeze but would be noticed.

I think Peel may be able to hit almost 70's leans easier than the sports bike I've tried which scrapes the chin fairing on some - but Only after ya make room by getting leg/knee out the way by stretching it full out to rear axle nut and pull elbow in close too. Why don't we see racers doing this instead of sticking stuff out to touch down, pashaw - poor corner cripples pilots too afraid to go that far over as means one tire or the other will let go or leave the surface which can be a great advantage even on the fat tire corner cripples I learned this on, but too freaking slow and dangerous compared to just commute level ride on Peel. Who'd believe me w/o a meter recording it or racer trying to keep us in view. A tamed isolastic Commando has driven me stark raving mad so beware if trying to follow Peel's path.

Matt Spencer said:

CRIKEY , these sidecarists lean to 90 degrees . :shock: :wink:

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I once went for a ride with Dick Lepard, on the shop hack, a 650 Yamaha with parts tray and wheel tacked on the side. [ F... al hand holds but I found some. ] He know I had a commando and I knew he was NZ"s side car champion at the time. I wanted to go get some parts from Dominion Motors down the road and he offered to take. When we screamed past D M, I new something was going to happen, Up throught the tunnel, down through Hataitai, and round the bays. we F>>>>Me. all I could think of was the cars parked on the side of the road where we were tearing round every corner on 2 wheels. My only experience of this sort of thing was from watching the good guys racing on TV,. I think I wad a quick learner. I didn't shit myself, because I knew that he knew what he was doing. Must have been close though.

My usual leanometer lets me know. I once went with a friend [ who had his leanometer on the back of his kwaka 900 ] on the road round Tane Mahuta. [ biggest Kauri tree accessible from the road in NZ ] . I dropped the 750 [with the 19 tooth sprocket] into second gear and let her rip. [ leanometer pounding my thighs all the way ] every l/h corner the mamaku fronds hitting our helmets, then shit, hit the dirt section at the end, with a car on the corner. Notime to stop, just roared round the outside then slowed down. I just love those dirt roads, but don't like the idiots coming the other way so have to take it easy now. What thrill, but the leanometer has been adjusted to a more upright position now. Bugger.
Have a good one.

Thanks for sharing your side car monkey leanometering. Only a blow out or patch of sand away form loosing your head.

Do you really need to do this

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