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[QUOTE="EricGorr, post: 307724, member: 19611"] Funny enough Bob Oliver was RJ's mechanic back then. After RJ went to Honda Bob joined the YZ development team with Ed Schiedler and has been instrumental in the development of the YZs for 20 years. Regarding the high CG on big bikes, Rich and I speculated once that perhaps it has something to do with the crankshaft inertia. Speculating that the greater inertia will make the bike more difficult to lean over in a turn and that the higher CG helps off-set that effect. I remember when Kawasaki Japan tried to fit the KX500 engine into the KX250 chassis for Dave Thorpe and he complained that he couldn't corner the bike as well as a standard KX500. They went roundy-round about that problem all year and finally blamed it on Dave saying he was over the hill. I think that the team manager just couldn't admit that they had an engineering problem. But if you went into a motocross orientated pub in England there were always old motorcycle blokes pondering about the handling problems of that new fangled bike over several pints of room-temperature ale. Because of course DT was "The People's Champion" and could do no wrong. Personally I believe they were right and that bike ended Dave's career 5 years too soon. Maybe somebody ought to do some investigation into the relation of crankshaft inertia and the bike's CG. I just talked to Doug from Service Honda today and he had some wise cracks about Rich's freshly lowered CRF. I reminded him that Rich could throw that bike into the back of his pick-up truck with 1 hand :p [/QUOTE]
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