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Beg to differ... that may be 200

posted by  uniberp on  Mon Feb 7 03:06 CST 2005
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I'm listening, but the theory needs to be verified by experiment.

Trust me, if you alter the caster on either side of a car you will notice a marked pull as a result. Camber will not have nearly as marked an effect.

Camber by itself does minimal change in tracking. Camber only serves to maintain a sufficient contact patch on the road surface during suspension movements, otherwise, live axles would be all fine. Car tires work in pairs, entirely different physics than bikes. The angle of the plane from vertical can very widely and have minimal effect on tracking.

Without getting into discussions of precession, angular momentum and the like, try this experiment. Whan riding a bicycle, pull on one handle bar, without any other compensating motion. Which way do you turn? That's right, the opposite way.
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