Re: New Product - Turkite Fork Bushings
You might want to balance that wheel.
Not a bad idea yet mostly had, but that don't affect the ~1/16" slack I can get at the axle distance from the top bushes. I have great respect for any one pressing a C'do to induce its handling quirks, I don't ever intend to enter that territory on a normal C'do ever again in my life time as may be the last time.
On the other hand I have almost no respect for any other motorcycle handling than Ms Peel. Realize she has driven me stark raving mad 24/7, not even as intense as finding dead younger brother a few years ago. Where ya see others having tank slappers or sliding rear out is merely the end of low orbit ho hum phase 2 on Peel and the beginning of what's on my mind and heart - 3 further faster ways around > to turn every turn into a sharper decreasing radius or a series of no let off straights... So Peels needs don't relate to anything others know about as all others try to avoid Peel's extra states of easy glee -at all costs- including loss of racing careers in chicanes instead of losing life itself. I must do the same on moderns too of course, as they are all deadly corner cripples no one knows how to solve but by 'puter cutting power before and into apexes.
The blur that concerns me ONLY happens when front is lifted out of traction by power planting in phase 3 Straight Steering [not ho hum counter steering] but not yet completely lifted off surface so is sliding skewed for a few yds till path opens enough to let me pull her trigger >by let off - for frame sling-shot-un-wrap of stored energy or- >by more power for over 60' degree laid over sideways wheelie. With 2" lifted Peel I hope to need dolly wheels on bars nearing 70' degrees lean. Peel can squash skinny rear patch down wider don't ya know - so can hook up more power than other cycles No Matter Their Power Potential.
While front is still in more or less surface contact there is some drag on it yet and I have to predict-sense this to compensate for that -until tire & drag effect completely disappears to let the Real Boss have its way like a unicycle. I fear that the slight fork blur oscillation fro/aft may surprise me unpredictably into a bluff face, over railings or into a truck grill that's cutting corners into my blind lane. So far I've not been able to really let Peel's hair out because I do not allow my self the luxury to ever use more than half a lane path on tarmac in public. Yes that's how secure Ms Peel is and you better believe this don't apply to no other cycle on pavement set up or SPLAT! MX bikes hooked in a vertical wall rut and ice spiked Speedway racers are what Peel can do on on dual purpose tractor tires on tarmac. Can't hardly wait for real race tire grip next year.
I Know the Front will go away on Peel, Hell that's where her Real Fun begins, but it must happen on my terms not by surprise.
One of the most wonderful-flabbergasting things about rump tri-rod'd Peel Commando - is every nuance of harmonics gets through clearly on its source and its influence on grip and handling. So this fork oscillation-blur is last mystery-phenomena to me as I can not feel it through bars or in traction line holding or skewed sliding effects BUT its Ms Peel -not a corner cripple- so she Also has to deal with the wind eddies on forks in this half steering half sliding state PLUS the lift-drops of ground effects of air trapped between me/bike and the road surface. One the reasons for OIF is to be rid of the aero dynamics of side covers and I may need Sperm Whale fin knobs to get even more out of her. How much of that do you read about on them fancy 'puterized elites, pashaw. if ya can't leave phase 2 handling then its not up to Peel's need of fighter pilot breath forcing to keep vision focus working fast enough.
No Engine Harmonics get though, Peel her self essentially disappears to my sensation of her but for SHOVES forward as there is nil sense of side flings on pilot after Phase 2 is left far behind, like a shift or two faster than you can conceive possible. Was for me too after corner school and my own modern corner famous SV650 on non DOT race tires.
The main reason for big block blown Peel ain't the sprints - its to explore phase 4 and 5 handling that's simply too fast of action of forks for a human to do, only pure power response can trip her out and hi side her in time after time through 10-15 mph bluff face rough ancient wagon trails nearing red line in 21T 850 ratio 2nd gear -60>90 mph. I measure Peel's time through sharps by parts of a heart beat not long drawn out breath holding time.
Ms Peel may be the Only cycle to really appreciate what Jim Schimdt and his piss ant attitude has actually accomplished. Its likely wasted efforts for most of ya RoadHolder C'do's.
hohohobot throwing Peel's power spirals right into Earth's Core yet missing...
