Originally Posted by
himurastewie
Congrats on all your success!
On another note, here's a small look at the hazards of PIO (Pilot Induced Oscillations, essentially the same thing you were describing about your Trek. Eventually it just gets out of control and things like
this happen. :O
Yep! You're telling me! You can actually bend the tips of the propeller on a Decathlon doing that......ask me how I know.
You can also still fly a Decathlon with bent propeller tips....ask me how I know that, too.
Did you know that propeller tips slashing concrete sound just like a big buzz-saw?
Although the "boingys" aren't really a PIO - they're really the result of an instability in the suspension fork design that oscillates in synch with the power-pulses from forceful pedaling. A PIO is an oscillation induced by the operator trying to CORRECT for the initial deviation from the desired attitude, but his input correction is out of phase with the required correction - each corrective input, instead of canceling out the oscillation, actually feeds it. Bad news!