Reply To: “Weighting the pegs” does NOT lower your center of gravity!
July 21, 2010 at 5:23 am
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eon
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What’s my prize?
But the argument continues
If you were to take a 75kg lump of lead off the seat and then put it on the pegs, I agree you would lower the bikes COG. But you are not a point mass. You are somewhere around 5 to 6 feet tall. When you stand you raise your cog.
Where you apply your weight (which is a force) has a profound impact on how the bike behaves. But cog has nothing to do with forces. It is the mean mass (or mass center) of an object. Two separate concepts.
But now I am waiting for Owlie to explain for us how countersteering works.