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Originally Posted by CobraBall
In the movie World's Fastest Indian Burt Munro did a stability demo with a pencil, the pencil became stable when the CG was moved forward of the CP. Burt wanted to add weight to the front end of his Indian MC to shift the CG forward of the center of pressure, thus make it more stable.
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GREAT movie, it just shows how much (even though a little "hollywood") backyard "engineers" can achieve and what streamlined bodies and regeared transmissions can do- in the movie they use it for speed, but the same holds true for economy...
In other words...
I want a taller 5th gear! I can downshift, thats fine im not lazy... heck its an automatic it will downshift by itself common!!!