Reading through this thread, I begin to understand why New Jersey paid Paul Van Valkenburgh actual money to run experiments on trike stability. On 4-wheelers, we commonly tune cars for understeer or oversteer by fairly small changes in the anti-roll bars, to increase weight transfer at the stickier end and get neutral handling. A trike eliminates all weight transfer at one end, so the other end always slides first, unless everything else has been radically compromised. Camber is a relatively minor issue in this debate, although it can be very important with some tires.
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