Friday, July 3, 2009

Ergonomics re handle bars and rear sets

Met with the following to discuss ergonomics:

Tyler Odom:
Crew chief Martin has been moving his handlebars out/forward in an attempt to give Tyler more front end feel as he has been plagued with low end low sides. Result - less crashes to the point that he had an incident free weekend at Road America!

Chuck Warren and Blake Young:
Chuck spent a lot of time with Blake testing prototype handlebars for angle and location at the start of the year. Now that they have all of the data for Blake's ergonomics, when they do a frame up build or a frame strip and rebuild everything goes back to the original and required position via specific tooling they made.

Mike Canfield and Martin Cardenas
Mike will change handlebar position and foot peg location as needed for Martin. He stated that to date this year, every race has seen small changes that have been made to make sure Martin is comfortable on the bike and given his results, that seems to be a very important factor.

The track goes live in 30 mins or so, and I am off to tune for Privateers in Daytona Sportbike and American Superbike.

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