| Prototype Results |

| This video is from July 8th |
started out in the beginner group so I could ease it up to pace. I spent the first two sessions taking it easy and making sure every thing was alright. Everything worked great so I went about 90% after that. I swear you can think it into corners. It behaves just like a conventional wheel except that the bike is really easy to turn. It never gave me the slightest wobble. Under hard acceleration when the front gets light and slightly off center it goes back to straight without any head shake. I did not use a steering damper. This same bike with the stock wheel went into a full tank slapper and nearly pitched me off in the Daytona infeild. |
more accuracy and less effort. I am running lap times consistent with the best that I have ever done with the stock wheel. Remember, it is a prototype intended to prove the concept not race. |
turn in quicker with no worry of wobble. The bike's geometry is set up fairly aggressively and I did not use a steering damper. |
31st. We tore it down after the last run and everything looked great. We are getting it ready for the track. We are making sure it is perfect before we haul it all the way out there. During the second test it felt even more amazing than the first time I rode it. When riding straight nothing is different except for the stompin brakes. When you want to change lean angle you simply counter steer as normal. The difference is while the bike is changing lean angle steering effort is very low. We were shooting for an 80% reduction and based on low speed tests I think we hit it pretty close. I cannot wait to see how it feels on a triple digit switch back. I'll let you know in a couple of weeks. |
felt even in the parking lot. The test was primarily a mechanical shake down run. It functioned perfectly. We ran it through the parking lot a few times at speeds up to about 25mph. Once we were confident at that pace we went out on the road. We were in an industrial park and traffic was not an issue. It was a fairly square block with only one sweeper so it was not possible to transition real aggressively. I ran it up to 60mph and leaned it from side to side as quickly as the bike could handle it with very little effort. The feel through the bars while transitioning was amazing as the gyroscopic resistance was so low that it greatly increased my feel for traction. The brakes were pinky finger strong but progressive. A full track test will hopefully happen within a few weeks. We are also going to measure the reduction in resistance measured in torque at the bars. |



