Featured In the August 2019 Issue of Roadracing World:
Four decades ago, 500cc Grand Prix race-bikes
started making a lot of power, so tires got bigger and frames got stiffer.
Chasing more horsepower was no longer the biggest deal in motorcycle racing.
That’s why the 500cc GP chassis of the early 1980s
are a million miles away from today’s ultra-high-tech MotoGP creations, most
especially Suzuki’s GSX-RR, the best-handling racebike on the MotoGP grid.
Chassis geometry has been refined,
mass-centralization has been improved, machine balance has been perfected, and
chassis flex has become a whole new area of racing science to help bikes corner
faster.
All these improvements have been demanded by more
horsepower, grippier tires, fiercer brakes, and so on …
–MotoGP Analysis: 10 Steps To The World’s Best Chassis Design, by Mat Oxley
It’s
no longer just about which bike makes the most horsepower. Now, the holy grail of
MotoGP engineers is a motorcycle with a pile of horsepower that’s also stable
on the brakes, arcs through an apex like a slalom skier and plants its fat
Michelin slick hard into the asphalt on corner exit. MotoGP Editor Mat Oxley
looks at the evolution of premier-class chassis engineering in the August 2019 issue
of Roadracing World!
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