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Make it harder to press gas pedal
On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 17:26:27 -0500, "T0m $herman"
> wrote: >On 8/25/2013 5:15 PM, Bill Vanek wrote: >> On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 17:01:06 -0500, "T0m $herman" >> > wrote: >> >>> On 8/25/2013 4:44 PM, AMuzi wrote: >>>> On 8/25/2013 4:39 PM, T0m $herman wrote: >>>>> On 8/25/2013 2:59 PM, Nate Nagel wrote: >>>>>> On 8/25/2013 3:12 PM, JR wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> I have a pair of white Army surplus 'Mickey Mouse' boots. >>>>>>> (If you >>>>>>> know what they are?) With those boots on, no problem with >>>>>>> pressing >>>>>>> two pedals at the same time. >>>>>> >>>>>> In a car with a manual transmission you should be able to >>>>>> hit the brake >>>>>> and gas with the same foot at the same time in normal >>>>>> shoes. I consider >>>>>> a car that you cannot do this in to be defective. >>>>>> >>>>>> nate >>>>> >>>>> But how well can you control both while doing this? The >>>>> motorcycle arrangement is better, where fine throttle and >>>>> front brake control are possible at the same time. >>>>> >>>> >>>> In any reasonably well designed car it goes like this: >>>> >>>> http://www.edmunds.com/how-to/heel-a...t=a ffiliates >>>> >>>> >>>> Although I have owned cars in which that is somewhere between clumsy and >>>> impossible. >>>> >>> That is hardly the level of fine control that one can achieve while >>> trail-braking into a corner on a motorcycle, where it is needed to >>> control the pitch of the bike to maintain optimal traction and preserve >>> ground clearance. Freddie Spencer basically won his world championships >>> by having finer throttle and brake control than anyone else, so it is >>> not a trivial consideration. >> >> But why do you think it's harder in a car, or at least one that's >> configured properly for heel/toe? Both take lots and lots of practice >> to do well. >> >Can you do precise throttle and brake control simultaneously in a car? >Crude compared to the level one can achieve on a motorcycle. Maybe I just suck at both, but I don't see much difference. I've also never spent much time in any car with the same twitchy throttle response as a fast bike - especially one with the usual Kawi on/off throttle response. |
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