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weight the outside peg?
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[QUOTE="ET, post: 124194, member: 21828"] I have wondered about this too, and have read the explanations in various publications, and most of them didn't seem to explain it correctly. In a turn, it doesn't matter if your weight is on the inside or outside footpeg, the combination of centrifugal force and gravity will go through the tire contact patches, or the bike will fall over, either high side or low side. The only difference weighting the outside footpeg can make, is to cause the bike to become more vertical. This apparently allows the tire to get more sideways traction, enabling the bike to pull more G's without sliding out. I have never read any scientific explanations for tire traction in dirt, and I doubt that there are more than a handfull of tire engineers in this country who do know anything about it. If there are any reading this thread, please enlighten us. [/QUOTE]
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weight the outside peg?
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