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05-19-2020, 02:18 AM | #2 |
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Southeast Mchigan
Posts: 169
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I could guess at a couple reasons.
1) For reasons of style/appearance ... some like the stretched look. 2) A longer wheel base tends to give a smoother ride over road surfaces that are less than perfectly smooth or even. Also the bike would be less prone to short coupled "twitchiness". That may or may not be a desirable effect though it isn't too stretched to be problematic to handling I think. A small amount more lean would be needed to navigate a turn in the same track of a similar, but shorter wheelbase bike. That also means that the minimum arc (handlebar at full lock) of a turn will be larger than that of the short wheelbase bike as well. Again, I don't think that is much of a handling issue since the difference is not all that great and people can and do adjust to bikes of differing wheelbase lengths. There may be others, but those were the first 2 that I thought about. 3)? Well, I did think about it giving a little more length of space forward of the center of the rear axle to carry weight. (weight carried behind the centerline of the rear axle tends to lighten the load on the front wheel which could cause handling problems.) That is why, if I get a smax, then I would also get the long wheelbase kit because I would want to build a full body streamlined fairing for it similar to a fairing I am building for my 250 cc Honda Reflex. It extends well behind the rear axle, but still will not allow it to carry very much of any load very far behind the rear axle centerline.
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