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<blockquote data-quote="timetraveller" data-source="post: 96473" data-attributes="member: 456"><p>To continue davidd's thoughts on this but to consider sailing boats first. Yachts (sail boats) work by the wind blowing against the side of the boat and the sails being at an angle to that wind. If the sails were exactly fixed along the fore and aft axis of the boat and the wind was exactly from the side then the boat would only try to move sideways. These boats have keels (or fins, dagger boards, centre boards etc.) in order to try to prevent them going sideways. If the centre of pressure on the sails is in front of the centre of lateral resistance caused by the keel then the front of the boat will 'blow off', meaning that the front will move away from the direction of the wind. Similarly if the wind is aft of the centre of lateral resistance the stern will 'blow off' and the boat will tend to head into the wind. It is one of the skills in yacht design to get the centre of pressure on the sails above the centre of lateral resistance due to the keel etc.</p><p> On a motorcycle all this pressure is taking place along the line of the bike. Here I am ignoring any side winds. The wind force will occur on both the bike itself and the rider. I imagine that the centre of gravity of a bike is somewhere about the centre of the engine. That is above and behind the centre of the flywheels. The centre of gravity of the rider is probably about his or her navel. The combination of these two centres of gravity (450 lbs for the bike and 200 lbs for the rider) will probably be near to the bottom of the petrol tank. The forces due to wind pressure will probably be at the same height as the combined centre of gravity of rider and bike.</p><p>We have probably all had the experience of putting too much weight on the rear carrier frame and found that the steering has got very light with a tendency to wobble. There was a video on this forum some time ago of a young chap trying out bananaman's heavily loaded bike in the USA and scaring himself with the front wheel wobble. So I suspect that the effect described by david is not along the fore and aft line but is a matter of where the heights of the effects are. The human sail moves the centre of pressure upwards rather than fore or aft and my guess is that that has something to do with what is happening in the video. The higher the centre of pressure then the lighter the downward force on the front wheel.</p><p>Oh to have access to either a wind tunnel or a computer model of a bike and rider and a computational fluid dynamics (and the skills to use it) program.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="timetraveller, post: 96473, member: 456"] To continue davidd's thoughts on this but to consider sailing boats first. Yachts (sail boats) work by the wind blowing against the side of the boat and the sails being at an angle to that wind. If the sails were exactly fixed along the fore and aft axis of the boat and the wind was exactly from the side then the boat would only try to move sideways. These boats have keels (or fins, dagger boards, centre boards etc.) in order to try to prevent them going sideways. If the centre of pressure on the sails is in front of the centre of lateral resistance caused by the keel then the front of the boat will 'blow off', meaning that the front will move away from the direction of the wind. Similarly if the wind is aft of the centre of lateral resistance the stern will 'blow off' and the boat will tend to head into the wind. It is one of the skills in yacht design to get the centre of pressure on the sails above the centre of lateral resistance due to the keel etc. On a motorcycle all this pressure is taking place along the line of the bike. Here I am ignoring any side winds. The wind force will occur on both the bike itself and the rider. I imagine that the centre of gravity of a bike is somewhere about the centre of the engine. That is above and behind the centre of the flywheels. The centre of gravity of the rider is probably about his or her navel. The combination of these two centres of gravity (450 lbs for the bike and 200 lbs for the rider) will probably be near to the bottom of the petrol tank. The forces due to wind pressure will probably be at the same height as the combined centre of gravity of rider and bike. We have probably all had the experience of putting too much weight on the rear carrier frame and found that the steering has got very light with a tendency to wobble. There was a video on this forum some time ago of a young chap trying out bananaman's heavily loaded bike in the USA and scaring himself with the front wheel wobble. So I suspect that the effect described by david is not along the fore and aft line but is a matter of where the heights of the effects are. The human sail moves the centre of pressure upwards rather than fore or aft and my guess is that that has something to do with what is happening in the video. The higher the centre of pressure then the lighter the downward force on the front wheel. Oh to have access to either a wind tunnel or a computer model of a bike and rider and a computational fluid dynamics (and the skills to use it) program. [/QUOTE]
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