Post subject: Re: Early Design Stages MidEngine BMW powerplant

TRX
May 08, 2014

I used to get carsick as a kid. My parents dragged me coast to coast in a Rambler station wagon with a vomit bag. I more or less outgrew it as I got older, but the "jet fighter" layback position brings it back.

I found a bolt-upright seating positon helped my autocross times repeatably. I've stayed with it since.

An interesting this is, most modern cars have the windshields laid so far back, and the roof fronts bent down, that I can't sit upright in most post- 2000 cars. Bear in mind this is with the seat slid all the way back, and I'm not even six feet tall, and I often wind up with my forehead hitting the sun visor or (with some GM products) the freakin' windshield...

Car stylists seem to want you to lay on your back, while motorcycle stylists want you to lay on your face. I had risers, setbacks, and different bars on my last bike, so I could sit in something approaching an upright posture. The ZZXXRR squids were always impressed; how could an old geezer like me with such an unfashionable riding position keep winding up near the head of the pack? "Because I can see where I'm going..."