[python] Re: gyro forces

  • From: "25hz" <25hz@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <python@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:09:37 -0400

Others might be, but the ones they knew of and rode were not like tubulars.
Theirs just stretched over and popped into therim.

> So they're not glued, like sew-ups?
>
> >  They said the tire heats up on
> >long, fast downhills because of the frame wobbling badly, and as the tire
> >heats up, it doesn't need to stretch much to come off the rim they said.
> >  If anything, it might be
> >centrifugal force, plus the wobble, that helped the warmed up tire
> >come off the rim.
>
> I can see where they might not be all that stiff in the steer axis,
> with the long, light forks.
> I was thinking that the large wheel was catching a lot of air and
> flapping in its own turbulence like a stop sign in the wind.
>
> Ray

The main thing they said that was the problem was the frame was small/light
and would develope pedal induced wobbling.

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