Bandit Alley

GENERAL MOTORCYCLE FORUMS => GENERAL MOTORCYCLE => Topic started by: jbrough7 on May 01, 2006, 07:11:48 PM

Title: Try This Science Experiment On Your Bandit......
Post by: jbrough7 on May 01, 2006, 07:11:48 PM: I was cruising along sitting up tall at 147 km/hr. I held the throttle steady-eddy and tucked down behind the windscreen. The speed went up to 150 keeping the throttle steady, I swear!

I'm a big guy so maybe there's a ton of drag around me but maybe somebody else has noticed the same?

I'd love to go in one of those wind tunnels with the smoke on the bandit and see what it would look like...how much square footage (resitance) causes how much loss of speed at different miles/kilometres per hour?? Would be interesting..

Any brainiacs in the crowd?? :idea:

Jim
Title: Try This Science Experiment On Your Bandit......
Post by: B6mick on May 02, 2006, 07:39:14 AM: Really.
Wow what happens at 100MPH when ya stick 1 knee out.
Sorry James I'm in a shyte stirring mood tonight. :wink:
Title: Try This Science Experiment On Your Bandit......
Post by: SmokeyAndTheBandit on May 02, 2006, 07:51:45 AM: http://damonrinard.com/aero/formulas.htm
Check out this website. It gives all the physics equations and reasonings for them. Plus it shows examples with bicycles. Interesting stuff.
Title: Try This Science Experiment On Your Bandit......
Post by: ATC'er on May 02, 2006, 10:32:56 AM: I've read on a Hayabusa board that at high speeds it's important to know how to tuck. Is there really a wrong or right way? I thought you just lay down really low on the gas tank and hold on?
Title: Try This Science Experiment On Your Bandit......
Post by: Red01 on May 02, 2006, 01:00:21 PM: With a fat boy like me, laying down as low as possible would be right, but for those that are waistline impaired, they'd want to position themselves to keep as faired with the windscreen and bodywork as possible.
You can induce turbulence from being too low, almost as much as if you're too high.

Welcome to Aerodynamics 101. :grin:
Title: Try This Science Experiment On Your Bandit......
Post by: Desolation Angel on May 02, 2006, 01:54:04 PM: Quote from: "Red01"
With a Fat Boy like me, ...

Dude, I didn't realize you had one of those things. Yours look like this one?

(http://www.motoplanete.com/harley-davidson/1450fatboy.jpg)

:stickpoke:
Title: Try This Science Experiment On Your Bandit......
Post by: Red01 on May 02, 2006, 02:09:09 PM: No, no, no... "fat boy like me" - not 'Fat Boy like mine' :duh:

Looks like this:

(http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d35/paulweit/2004%20Bike%20trip/32_Paul_at_Canyon.jpg)
Title: Try This Science Experiment On Your Bandit......
Post by: Desolation Angel on May 02, 2006, 02:15:16 PM: Dude! Time to start making modifications!

:beers:

Actually, at first I wondered how you got a picture of me...
Title: Try This Science Experiment On Your Bandit......
Post by: Red01 on May 02, 2006, 02:18:15 PM: I have... I think I'm ~10 lbs heavier now than when that pic was taken. :sad:
Title: Try This Science Experiment On Your Bandit......
Post by: Desolation Angel on May 02, 2006, 02:36:15 PM: Quote from: "Red01"
I have... I think I'm ~10 lbs heavier now than when that pic was taken. :sad:

Ain't it wonderful how powerful Bandits are?

I'm just sayin'! :grin:
Title: Try This Science Experiment On Your Bandit......
Post by: jbrough7 on May 02, 2006, 04:06:24 PM: Quote from: "B6mick"
Really.
Wow what happens at 100MPH when ya stick 1 knee out.
Sorry James I'm in a shyte stirring mood tonight. :wink:

Don't laugh, but I got that racer boy feeling one night and was zinging along pretty good in a blustery wind - stuck my knee out as i was leaning around a corner and I could really feel the drag!

Makes me wonder if that's another reason those racers do that - so they slow down a tad on the corner without touching the brake?

Love to see a movie of me going around a corner - I have this picture in my mind that everything is just about scraping and I bet I'm only leaning 5 degrees or so!

Sorry of like when I saw a movie of me dancing at a wedding - thought I was moving like fred astaire and it was actually more like rodney dangerfield! Sorry sight.... :crybaby:

Jim