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In Motorcycle Racing or Canyon Burning Physics Matter
By: Lance Winslow
Any decent motorcycle racer or extreme hobbyist will tell you that the natural laws of physics do indeed matter. Whether you ride for fun, challenge or even race there is no doubt in your mind that the laws of gravity, acceleration, centripetal force and kinetic energy are very real.
In fact they can be your best friend or worst nightmare depending on how you chose to use them and there are plenty of broken bones and road rash scars to prove it out there. In Motorcycle racing you can feel yourself pulling from the turn due to centripetal force when you let off the throttle. So you get onto the brakes before coming into the turn and then feed the throttle thru it, while counter steering.
You can take a system of a combination of natural laws and change it around to fit your need for control; same with anything. Whether you are flying, sailing or skiing. Consider wind turbulence in an aircraft while flying straight and level. Your perfect system encounters an outside force, wind shear or other wake turbulence.
You were doing perfectly fine, aircraft trimmed up, nothing to do, but look outside, suddenly secondary forces. But provided every thing is correct no controls will put the aircraft into another stable system upon the disappearance of the secondary force. Or if it is strong it could turn you upside down into chaos if you are too close to the ground. You lose. Chaos wins.
There is no difference in motorcycle racing you set up for your turn correctly and prepare to adjust if anything changes or some squid loses the front end ahead of you sliding off the track. Either you adapt or end up eating pavement. Hey you decide, but do not ever believe you are above the natural laws of physics out there. Consider this in 2006.
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