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That’s right, in a car as you go into a corner you first steer a little bit, the car then “takes a set” - i have no idea where that terminology comes from but i
by CraigJPerry 4y ago
That’s right, in a car as you go into a corner you first steer a little bit, the car then “takes a set” - i have no idea where that terminology comes from but it just means the car moves to a steady state of loading up the outside suspension. Once you feel the car has taken a set, you can crank on a lot more steering. I’m describing it as two phases but the best drivers smooth both of these phases into one flowing motion - slowly steer at first then steer faster. Doing it in this two phase approach allows for far higher lateral g to be built in the turn than if you just smoothly turn at the same rate. You extract more grip because you build weight over the tire before asking it to grip and grip is parlty a function of weight on the tyre.
In most car drivetrain configurations you’d then use a balanced throttle through the turn.
You can use a balanced throttle on a bike too - many people do - but all race bikes and most advanced riders even in non race scenarios will use a slight acceleration not a balanced throttle because where in the car you want to settle the suspension with a heavy loading equally on your two outside wheels (e.g. in an FR layout car) on a bike you want to have around 65% weight on the rear.
There’s a similar effect with the Porsche 911 - it’s an RR layout with 12 inch wide tyres at the rear and a slight acceleration is optimimum for it.