Motorbikes!!!!

[mike31154]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

I have. I even went so far as to look them up once, but do you think I could remember the URL or name or anything? I gotta stop drinking out of aluminum cans.

I also remember they profiled them on Discovery a few years back when they first started popping up.

To me it seems kind of neat. But I wonder what it's like cornering on them. I'm not motorbiker (although I ride two wheels a lot so I *sort* of know what I'm talking about here...maybe??), but it seems to me part of the allure is the banking into a turn? With 3 wheels you're not going to get the same feel (whether the duallie is in the front or in the rear??) ..I dunno though?

I came up behind one of these on my R1200C on Westside Road (a real twisty between Vernon & Kelowna). Obviously does not corner anything like a two wheeler and I had no trouble sticking to his tail. Could have passed him with little trouble except that Westside Road doesn't offer too many real safe opportunities to pass. I got the crazy stuff out of my system long ago and like to think I owe my longevity to making smarter decisions after a few close calls. Anyhow, he had to really lean his upper body into the turn, like a snowmobiler might, to compensate for the centrifugal force of cornering. Reminded me of the guys in the old sidecar races I used to watch. I also noticed he would accelerate hard out of the turn, which a bike does too, but he had to brake harder than a two wheeler prior to entering turns. Maybe fun for a while, but as you say, I didn't get the impression you'd get the same exhilaration as you do leaning a two wheeler into a turn and shaving a little paint/metal off the footpegs. I think it would get old pretty quick for me.