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Left wheel goes up on a roundabount
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BLUEKNIGHT911
Sadly Passed Oct 2024 - RIP
It is ...IF ... you are going way too fast. IMHO you need a lot more practice at SANE speeds. .... good luck .... Mike :thumbup:
Brake a little harder & earlier BEFORE you enter the round-about; then as you enter it, brace with your right foot as you gently accelerate and maintain that as you go thru/around; at the same time leaning your upper body across to transfer weight in & down across/towards the inside of the corner (corner hard enough & you'll need to kiss your left wrist!
); while only pulling back on the left handlebar (to avoid pushing with your other hand & thereby applying a 'down & out' force onto the right handlebar that is a direct contributor to the LH side front wheel lifting! ) :thumbup: Practice this & Do it right, and you won't lift the inside wheel while you're negotiating a round-about :lecturef_smilie: But by the same token, if you Practice this & Do it right, it won't matter if you do lift the inside wheel as you negotiate the turn; you can ryde quite some distance with one front wheel in the air without any adverse effect or the Nanny kicking in & curbing your excess!! :yes:
The only reason the Nanny'd kick in anyway would be if you let the Spyder become unstable (meaning you didn't transfer your weight in & down, and you weren't pulling back on the inside bar enough, but instead you were pushing 'down & out' on the outside bar!! :banghead: ) or the raised front wheel has started to slow it's spinning enough that there's a significant rotational speed difference detected between it and the other wheels! The Nanny REALLY LIKES all the wheels to be turning at pretty much the same speed, altho there is some tolerance there, cos you can spin the rear tire a little, or ryde with one front in the air for a while too!
hyea: And if all that sounds too hard, then as mentioned earlier, just SLOW DOWN &/or be a little smoother/gentler on your steering input! After all, the Spyder is only responding to YOUR control inputs! If you don't like what it's doing while you ryde like this, then chances are that it's something YOU are doing that's causing it, so only YOU can remedy that! :shocked:
Just Sayin'
Good Luck! :cheers:
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BajaRon
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Always remember, "Smooth is Fast"
Starting into the turn hugging the inside, BAD! Watch any race driver. Where do they start the turn? Towards the outside edge. Then, as they move through the curve, they gradually move to the inside, being as close to the inside edge as is safe at about the middle of the curve. Then, gradually fading back to the outside edge of the curve while accelerating into the straight roadway ahead. Ideally exiting the curve at about the same position as they entered it. The reality being, the quickest route is a straight line. While you can't ride a straight line through a curve. The idea is to make it as straight as you can. Apexing will do this for you.
You don't have to be a NASCAR driver to benefit from this skill. A lot of riders who hit the guardrail or go off the edge of the road do so because they have not mastered and practiced this skill when they didn't need it So, they didn't have it when they did need it.
You can probably go through the same turn faster, without lifting a wheel at all, if you practice this approach.
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ThreeWheels
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Braggart !!!!
Jetfixer
Well-known member
Haven't picked up a wheel yet, but I DO rub the forward most fender screw with the tire! And that's with ContiPro Contacts' at 19 psi. The hard part is remembering to flash the brake lights if someone is behind me. Drop into lower gear and nail it halfway through the apex described by BajaRon above!
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