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Do you ride with your Hard Bags?
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<blockquote data-quote="EXPDSGT" data-source="post: 594183" data-attributes="member: 2654"><p>For the handling issue, it's all about rotational inertia. More weight higher up from the contact patch of the tire on the road leads to slower turn times because you have to put more moment on the bike to roll it from R to L or back. The roll inertia term (the thing that you want to drive as close to zero as you can) consists of a mass item and the square of the distance from the rotation center. The bags add a noticeable inertia term and DO slow the time to change bank angle when carving. The bike is more agile without them. For my part, I drop them whenever I ride with the sporties (like our Thursday 100 mile hamburger runs along Angeles Crest after work) and put 'em back on for all else where agility is not really needed.</p><p></p><p>This only applies when the ambient temperature and the relative humidity are constant to PI squared.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EXPDSGT, post: 594183, member: 2654"] For the handling issue, it's all about rotational inertia. More weight higher up from the contact patch of the tire on the road leads to slower turn times because you have to put more moment on the bike to roll it from R to L or back. The roll inertia term (the thing that you want to drive as close to zero as you can) consists of a mass item and the square of the distance from the rotation center. The bags add a noticeable inertia term and DO slow the time to change bank angle when carving. The bike is more agile without them. For my part, I drop them whenever I ride with the sporties (like our Thursday 100 mile hamburger runs along Angeles Crest after work) and put 'em back on for all else where agility is not really needed. This only applies when the ambient temperature and the relative humidity are constant to PI squared. [/QUOTE]
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