Reply To: “Weighting the pegs” does NOT lower your center of gravity!
July 20, 2010 at 2:17 pm
#27621
briderdt
Participant
If you look at the dynamics of system, and instead of treating the bike and rider as a single unit (which I agree, it doesn’t then matter how you weight, the combined CG is constant), you treat them as the rider acting on the bike…
If the rider’s weight is on the seat, then the CG of the bike with the rider’s weight is higher than when that weight is on the pegs. The effect of the rider’s weight on the bike’s CG depends on where it’s applied.