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Hi,

I am having some real troubles goin round slow / mid speed left handers with any speed. If it is a fast left hander I seem to be able to handle these ok, apart from me having to muscle the steering a lot more than on the rights.

I'm not sure if it is a setup issue, or because my passenger only weighs 10 stone, but on slow / mid speed left handers it seems that whatever I do, I cannot keep the chair on the floor, or even hovering, always feels like the bike is gonna tip over. People have told me to accelerate out of this, and the chair will come down, but this doesn't seem to help.

At Donington last weekend, we seemed to lose a lot of time around Goddard's. Chair just comes up every time, I didn't feel like I could go any faster. I also struggled with the left at Aintree, and the left after the start finish at Angelsey.

Any insights appreciated.

Hi dave. Could be passenger not out enough but we too had issues with goddards. It's a very technical corner. I also tried everything to go faster but struggled. It's off camber braking is blind and it tightens. According to our datalogger we did average 35 mph around it but our chair wheel was very high and we had quite abit of wheelspin out of all corners due to track and air temps very high, my right boot has worn down good to see you there though keep it up chap

powerhouse wrote:Hi dave. Could be passenger not out enough but we too had issues with goddards. It's a very technical corner. I also tried everything to go faster but struggled. It's off camber braking is blind and it tightens. According to our datalogger we did average 35 mph around it but our chair wheel was very high and we had quite abit of wheelspin out of all corners due to track and air temps very high, my right boot has worn down good to see you there though keep it up chap

instead of blameing passenger we now alot of drivers do blame them when things go wrong have you checked your back shocker it could be to soft or hard that makes a big diff on lefts

My passenger was way out. I don't think he could get any further out.

We did stiffen the rear shocker, my mechanic's get frustrated with me when I say this but I didn't notice a difference. They can change any number of things and I don't notice. ...

Whites wrote:My passenger was way out. I don't think he could get any further out.

We did stiffen the rear shocker, my mechanic's get frustrated with me when I say this but I didn't notice a difference. They can change any number of things and I don't notice. ...

if its a decent shocker there will be 2 or 3 setting on shocker you wud have to play with them for rebound and compreshion or even your tyre presure cud be low and digging in

I had this problem with my short F1, and despite trying harder rear spring, heavier passenger and different gearing, solved it by going to a wider front tyre. Might not fix your problem, but may be posssible.

Jeff

Go into the corner wide, and a bit slower than you would normally. Turn quickly on the apex then gas it.

Aha, the old solo TZ dictum resurfaces _ go in deep & come out fast