Re: Stopping distances


"J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Bill Walker wrote:
"J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Bill Walker wrote:
"J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Joe wrote:
Would you be kind enough to explain how those will help? More
traction is wasted, you can flip a sportbike over the front
wheel
with street tires.

I didn't know we were only talking about sport bikes... You
said,
"Bottom line: 80 to 0 in 100 feet is pure fantasy." That
doesn't
rule out my Valkyrie with racing tires custom made for a big
bike.
:) If you can flip my Valk over the front wheel without hitting
something, you're better than me because I've tried the limits
of
the
front tire and it eventually simply skids.

But that's not with racing tires. You really think that racing
tires
will give you over 2G of deceleration? Has anybody ever achieved
that level on a motorcycle?

I was simply pointing out that your "cover all" statement didn't
really cover all. What if the bike was a chopper with racing
slicks
front and back on a custom racing-slick rubber track? <grin>

What if it had a 100,000 pound thrust rocket engine?

I'm sure that someone could somehow under ideal conditions cause
a
purpose-built motorcycle stop in 100 feet from 80 MPH. But
that's
not what was under discussion.

What kind of motorcycle was the man riding .. you know, the one
that
made the picture perfect stop, or didn't ?

What difference does it make? Or are you saying that it's such a
piece of crap that stopping in 600 feet with smoking tires is not
to
be expected of it?

I'm saying you are a usenet motorcyclist and don't know your ass
from
ground coffee, on the road.. I doubt that you've ridden enough to
have
ever been in situation to require an panic stop, and if you ever
did,
you'd freeze up and become a trunk ornament on the vehicle ahead of
you..

All your hindsight.. woulda, shoulda, coulda.. makes you a statistic
on the road, sooner or later..

Understand.. I don't care how you ride your motorcycle, or if you
ride a motorcycle.. I've seen a lot of things in my long history..
some you may or may not believe.. that's your choice.. My impression
is that you are
a statistic waiting to happen.. Good luck..

What I believe is irrelevant. According to the information that you
posted, the perfect stop you described took place over a distance of
600 feet, which oasysco should be able to do with just the rear brake
on his new Galantra.

LOL.. Bubba.. if you or anyone else need 600 ft. to stop a motorcycle..
at any speed, you better stay off the road.. especially a metroplex
freeway.. You haven't been out very much, have you ? ROTFL..


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