What causes the bike to shake? | Forums

[BCDraven]

I've noticed playing a lot of user tracks (and on one of mine) that sometimes when going down high speed ramps that usually set-up for a big jump the bike and controller vibrate at the bottom and cause you to lose speed before going off the end. I have noticed on other things too other than big jumps. What causes that and how can you avoid it? Does anyone else have this happen or am I losing it?

[RetiredRonin]

There are two things that I know of that cause the rider to shake.

#1. Curved driving lines that are too sharp for the speed that the bike is traveling. Making the radius of the turn larger should help to fix this.

#2. Too much speed causing the bike's suspension to fully compress and jam the front tire into the frame. Smoothing out the ramp, or making the it longer/larger, should fix this.

[BCDraven]

That makes sense, I was thinking maybe it was a problem with the collision of certain objects but wasn't sure. Thanks for the explanation!

*Edit: I just remembered one in particular that was a medium roller coaster type track and just about every launch ramp had this problem which killed trying to go for a speed run on it. I've been seeing this more and more on tracks lately so maybe people will see this and know what to watch for.