Reply To: “Weighting the pegs” does NOT lower your center of gravity!
July 20, 2010 at 1:43 pm
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Gary856
Participant
You need to understand the semantics of what is being described before claiming the physics is wrong. Like you said, this is not a classroom physics discussion.
When you sit on a bike, the bike/rider move together as a unit. When you stand up on the pegs, the rider/bike separation allows the “bike” itself to move freely and independently under the rider, which is critical in dirt riding. The combined CG does not, and cannot, change, but the “bike’s CG” (and its inertia) is greatly lowered when it’s seperated from (i.e., not rigidly attached to) the rider. The whole thing is about independant movement between the bike and the rider. Makes sense now?