Sunday, March 21, 2010

Bob and Weave

Before we allow the vehicle in the grasp of the wind on an open surface we wanted to do a few vehicle dynamics tests. With that in mind, we spent much of Saturday at the New Jerusalem taxiways, first slowly increasing the speeds of the vehicle without the prop installed run by run.

These runs in the video are our later ones and have Rick at about 50mph and trying to upset the cart through steering inputs.

Brakes, steering and general stability proved excellent. There is a bit more brake disc squeal than I was expecting ... I'll do some research on the bike forums and see if there is an answer.

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