Oh my oh my oh my. After Bob Patton rear, Bryan Tyree front and my top link, combined, with fork mods, the world is now dived into all the bikes that can and will weave and wobble and those one in a row that simply can not, will not miss behave. I do not speculate One Iota on this so only feel so sorry for what you all are missing out on. Any and all the stuff in the aritcle and video apply to all other bikes but one.
I've a good gone through Trixie Combat that I've kept as factory issued with minor mods to correct factory over sights. I had every issue discussed with her last year but after the new tires she has none of the common Commando traits now, no left drift tendency on level path or any road crown slope climbing or dropping. Can let roll down to 20's hands off with only some automatic self correcting fork oscillation that is vital part of what keeps a bike upright on its own. Does not self magnify dramatically as did on old hard tires even at 50 hands off, yIKES!
Does not matter a whit what size wind sail I stick on the forks or sticking out in camping luggage in windy Texas trip, steady as she goes. Prior I've had all these wind catchers and un-equal loads in bags or loose parts to flappy jacket or chains tug my Cdo into hinge zone.
BUTT its still a freaking rubber baby buggy that is un-safe to take chances on.
I Live with THE Hinge each time I hit THE Gravel. I got miles of freeway like paths and often a bit late to get somewhere, so I do not doddle but only takes 40-50's in sweepers for THE Hinge to start. Its my long time drunken friend to tolerate, control or flat avoid. I can ride into it from below by speeding or from above by letting up. I get to explore each facet of THE Hinge onsets and recovery and even better can stay in THE HInge to various degrees of speeds, accelerations and leans. None of this should apply to you all as it took me seasons of knowing I had to crash again so fast I didn't know what went wrong or just quit. Guess what its exactly what happens to all other bikes if pressed over their limits.
This last few outings on Trixie I've taken her into THE Hinge on better than race track sections. Rather faster than the sport guys are willing to do there, though of course not what these moderns can do with good rider. Everything is Factory perfect on Trixie so realtes directly to everyone else's un-tammed Cdo's. All's ya have to do is get over 80's in sweeper leaning 40 degrees or more and keep on the power. Then the counter steering of front to outside and the rear lean pulling to inside - tire conflicts twist frame/iso's up. This starts oscillation when the rear begins to over power the fronts pull outward, forks release some counter steering angle - for two reasons, one tire want to follow the curve direction that rear is dictating & 2nd the rear patch levers through the rear iso pivot to slap the front iso clearance to one side, felt in the fork twitch. If pilot keeps the loads increasing then this can build up by twisting the forks into frame then swing arm and iso rubbers and front mount tabs twist down tubes too, till magnify into full flopping fish off the deck. I practice this on purpose at way slower speed by zig zags in my lane till chassis snap back tends to hop tires off the surface. That scares me so bad imprinted I can't force Trixie into turns my subconscious senses might just do that, but bet I get closer to it on un-tammed Cdo than those w/o THE Hinge launching routine sense. I do zig zags on my SV650, I did it on Ninja 900 and a Harley 88cid cafe- ugh. There is no mystery to me no more on my old drunken friend-foe THE Hinge. So talking handling limits is scary serious and fear is not fun.
Wivel/wobbles occurs in all other motorcycles but one, just the modern or solid mounts raise oscillation freg so delays THE Hinge till it onsets at such hi frequency and force humans can't react fast or furious enough to catch it like you can a Cdo that onsets way more gently slowly - weakly - ugh till full fish flop off deck.
I can slap Trixie's handle bar on one side and she will wobble fork one.5 oscillation w/o bothering the chassis. IF I do a push pull combo on fork jerk the fork wobbles several cycles and onsets the chassis into a weave iike a dog shaking off water. I have sense if I did this in 2 push-pull smacks I'd crash in fish flop off the deck. So I do not risk that. This is exactly what I feel happen on sweepers I've laid into and get a bit lumpy - so I never ever risk THE HInge play into un-known surfaces, EVER! There is narrow zone of recovering or not.
This is exactly what the moderns I've pressed will do too, fork damper or not. Damper just
slight extrends the loads/speed before UN-controlable, witness the TT antic's with best suspension and damper available. They suffer to point they are un-predicable and so kills many a good rider.
I have hit Ms Peel bars so hard it chirped tire but self centered immediately with instant return to neutral in .5 cycle. I push/pull double to cause a snake like wave through chassis but its like a flag in the wind just passes through w/o effect on tires or aim, Really really confident building I tell you, as this is same as striking a fist size rock while leaned and bouncing out a wash board on THE Gravel On Trixie I have to lock body to hold forks in white knuckle grip or stones would trip her right out when going with a bit of spirit. Very wearing and worrying, like hi wire walker, routine skill but any blink of attention or lapse of effort, SPLAT> Peel is much less effort to control, hehe to point i love to jet ski her some, which is not at all like lazy dazy flat trackers wide slides, no sir ree bob. If they'd just turn their front into direction they want to go, boy howdy would they have to hang on like a drag racer on vectored thrust. Any less than that just goes off path at a tangent - ugh.
None of wonder bikes interests me in the least any more, I have no more respect for moderns beyond their bee line power to wt ability. I have had Ms Peel and have not been able to upset her in any way shape or form. So neutral its un-believable so can take on turns w/o any fear of crashing or surprise let goes or slip outs and no bike sensation either but the thrust and sound w/o any athletics but breath and grip holding against the G's draining brain blood to butt.
Those seeking fast handling Cdo often tell me all about THE Hinge limits my friend-F'n foe.
I know how to avoid it going rather fast - do you? Realize the better you get your Cdo to handle the closer to UN-tamed UN recoverable state you can fly into more comfortably.
