Motorcycle front wheel patter in heavy braking.

Author(s)
Sharps, R.S. & Giles, C.G.
Year
Abstract

The phenomenon of wheel patter as it occurs in the heavy braking of motorcycles in essentially straight line motion is described briefly as probably consisting mainly of vertical and longitudinal motions of the front wheel, which has cyclic variations in its spin velocity. It has led to the setting up of a mathematical model of the motorcycle and to the examination of its behavioural properties by digital computer simulation. The model includes only the front frame assembly taken to be pivoted about a horizontal axis and spring restrained to an infinetely massive rear frame.

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Library number
B 23728 (In: B 23710) /91/ IRRD 280733
Source

In: The dynamics of vehicles on roads and on railway tracks : proceedings of the 8th IAVSD-Symposium held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 15-19, 1983, p. 578-590, fig., graph., ref.

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