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Pit Bull Trailer Restraint

Discussion in 'General' started by Cuddles de Sade, Sep 15, 2007.

  1. thepro8

    thepro8 Well-Known Member

    :eek: Looks like the front end took all the force, not the swing arm. Don't think I want to buy your bike now :crackup:
     
  2. Chip

    Chip Registered

    The rear end did too....a few fractions of a second later.....and that bike was certified straight and sold a long time ago.
     
  3. Chip

    Chip Registered

    Charlie Van Valkenburg (Pit Bull) is a former Aerospace engineer....believe me.....he gets it. Literally a Rocket Scientist...
     
  4. Britt

    Britt Well-Known Member

    Charlie IS an ME, who is fully capable of designing and producing his own parts, If you wish to second guess, have fun, however without providing real data, you are speculating at best.
     
  5. thepro8

    thepro8 Well-Known Member

    All engineers and companies can make mistakes. All I'm doing is raising a concern some consumers have. The concern wasn't even something I thought of, but one of my friends and I though he made a good point http://chicagolandsportbikes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61966 Now that's two people consumers that may go with another type of product. What I think is cool is that we have some people here that hopefully could give us answers to our concerns which would make us both go buy this product. Just once of the cool things about having a community like this.

    Hopefully there are answers to this because if two of us had this concern after a thread that lasted a day,then I'm sure other consumers may have the same concern and I know Pit Bull would like to releave that so they get as many orders as possible.
     
  6. G2G

    G2G I feel the need




    :crackhead:

    :D
     
  7. thepro8

    thepro8 Well-Known Member

    Thanks Steve (g2g) for that amazing insightful view on this topic:D
     
  8. Cuddles de Sade

    Cuddles de Sade AnACREE in the UK!!!

    ok...so who's got $ on thepro8 working for PowerStands?
     
  9. Britt

    Britt Well-Known Member

    Let me add one other thing, Most of the factory teams haul their hi $$$$ bikes with a rod thru the rear axle, with no problem.
    I made some last year for Mladin Motorsports, and some this year for Marty Cragill.

    I will be buying these from Pit Bull.(these are far nicer than I can build, for any money)
     
  10. Cuddles de Sade

    Cuddles de Sade AnACREE in the UK!!!

    pfft...what do they know?!?!
     
  11. ScottyRock155

    ScottyRock155 A T-Rex going RAWR!

    Yea, but did they do it 1000's of times and then check for deformities???? :D
     
  12. Chip

    Chip Registered

    That would infer that Powerstanda actually engineers anything....and they don't....they just send Pit Bull stuff to china to be copied....badly.
     
  13. Chip

    Chip Registered

    I can't give you the data....I don't have it. But we have been using these stands for a while and we have made several trips to California and back. We pull swingarms and inspect/replace bearings after every round. We have not seen any accelerated wear. It is my professional opinion that this is much easier on the bike than strapping it into a wheel chock with the suspension loaded.
     
  14. KrashBandit

    KrashBandit The other guy at Pit Bull

     
  15. Britt

    Britt Well-Known Member

    Chip, dude yer argu'n with an engineer.....stop it.
    Forget Logic.
     
  16. Resident Plarp

    Resident Plarp drittsekkmanufacturing.com

    Anyone notice that used Pit Bull stands consistently sell for ten or twenty dollars less than retail on eBay?

    There's reason for that, it's good stuff. :up:
     
  17. Cuddles de Sade

    Cuddles de Sade AnACREE in the UK!!!

    good point Chipper, good point.
     
  18. TXFZ1

    TXFZ1 Well-Known Member

    You need to go show your professor this post and ask him to explain the principle of transmissibility again. The wheel axel is designed to take the gyroscopic forces caused by the rotating wheel and transmit this moment to the swingarm. I would think these forces at 150mph will be greater than the trailer going around a curve with no (motorcycle) wheel rotation.

    David
     
  19. Chip

    Chip Registered

    Check! :up:
     
  20. thepro8

    thepro8 Well-Known Member

    I completely agree that loading the suspension is bad, that's why I want to get away from it.

    This is the first post that makes be feel better about the swing arm concern. Sure you aren't measure the forces and can't give numbers, but if you are putting the bikes through an actual test and inspecting things and it's ok, then that is actual good data there. Berings are very robust and I doubt the forces would effect them so I'm assuming you are replacing them for other reasons.
     

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