Re: [CR]REVERSING FORKS OUT FOR TRACKRACING??!! NOW, MOTOR-PACED BIKES?

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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 10:58:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Peter Jourdain" <pjourdain@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]REVERSING FORKS OUT FOR TRACKRACING??!! NOW, MOTOR-PACED BIKES?
To: Scott Peterson <bobbycorno@bendbroadband.com>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <00c901c5c841$d145f720$6401a8c0@ScottPeterson>


Thanks so much, Scott--

Ah-ha! I have no doubt that you're right (unless others can contradict). But to be honest with you, I didn't know there were special bikes for motor-pacing, except for those special rigs set up to smash speed records, etc. So all this is new to me, and very fascinating. Tell me, Scott--or anyone--who were some of the manufacturers of motor-paced bikes? Did many of the regular British makes build such steeds?

Peter Jourdain Seeing the light, in Whitewater, Wisconsin

--- Scott Peterson <bobbycorno@bendbroadband.com> wrote:
> Those look like motor-pace bikes to me. Note the
> small front wheel and
> reversed fork, both intended to get the rider closer
> to his pacer and get a
> better draft.
>
> Scott Peterson
> Bend, OR
> ----- Original Message -----
> Peter Jourdain [edit] wrote> >
> > 1. Are these in fact road bikes both chaps are
> riding,
> > with the forks spun round?
> >
> > 2. If not, was there some kind of British (or
> other
> > marque) track bike built with reverse-curve forks?
> >
> > 3. If they are road bikes, was it a common
> practice
> > for clubmen to spin their forks round like this
> when
> > racing on the track?
> >
> > 4. Have any of you ever seen, heard of, or
> attempted
> > such a thing before?
> >
> > 5. On the practical level of physics and
> > bio-mechanics, does reversing a fork absolutely
> help a
> > track rider, or is there a trade-off in the area
> of
> > stability, steering, etc.?
> >
> > In retrospect it certainly is conceivable to me
> that
> > many an amateur clubman would not be wealthy
> enough to
> > afford separate road and track mounts, and that
> the
> > idea of fork reversal might be appealing to them,
> but
> > I'd never considered it before and this practice
> is,
> > to me, anyway, a revelation.
> >
> >
> http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/pjourdain/detail?.dir=/a4b4&.dnm=743f.jpg&.src
> =ph
> >
> > Cheerio to all,
> >
> > Peter Jourdain
> > Wondering in Whitewater, Wisconsin
> >
> >
> >
> >
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