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>Decreasing rake angle is the primary way of making a motorcycle turn faster, with the known risk that it makes it more likely to head shake or even tank-slap.

This must be what non-programmers feel like when they hear programmers talk about code.



"Here you go. All that was needed was to parse the cat root slash dev etcetera file for eth 0 and pugle the forward identity-locking rehooliginator and symlink it to the libgc perl humongisooler module after a kernel decompile and basic repatch update. Nothing to it, just RTFM and you'll figure it out!"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/10/02/mandrake_9_0_vs_mand...


A slightly mind blowing fact is that if you ride a motorbike at reasonable speed in order to enter a turn to the right you actually turn the handle bars to the left. This causes the motorcycle to lean-over to the right and thus entering a turn in that direction (due to the horizontal component of the weight).


Counter steering is incredibly freaky when on the bike as well.

You force yourself to fall and let the bike catch you and damn it is disconcerting the first few (hundred) times.




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