Re: [CR]Elementary Control-Theory Mistake in Jobst's article on Shimmy

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:51:29 -0800 (PST)
From: "brad stockwell" <brdstockwell@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Elementary Control-Theory Mistake in Jobst's article on Shimmy
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <200401151934.LAA13391@cascade.cs.ubc.ca>


Regarding use of headset tightness to dampen shimmy:

damping eliminates oscillation by slowing the response time of the system, which is unacceptable in a steering application...

Brad Stockwell Palo Alto

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