The Aftermath of the Dynamometer Disaster The Red Baron was tied down, thrown on its side, and revved way beyond its limits when it was mistakenly shifted from 2nd gear into 1st, rather than 3rd, during an acceleration run on an inertial dynamometer in the post-season of 2017. In the aftermath, we stripped the motorcycle … Continue reading The Aftermath of the Dynamometer Disaster
Reverse-Shift Pattern Dynamometer Disaster
For several years, we had been calculating horsepower and torque of The Red Baron based on engineering equations and results from race runs. The most direct way to get these numbers is using a dynamometer, but that gets complicated with our starting procedure and our reverse-shift pattern: push down to shift up, and lift up … Continue reading Reverse-Shift Pattern Dynamometer Disaster