that I wasn't actually at Rize and eventually take another exit. This throws me into a cacophony of grid locked and horn hooting traffic but through the chaos spy a hotel sign. After 10 or 15 minutes of circling I park up in the lee of an
abandoned car near where I believe the hotel is located and wander off. The hotel is found and a room purchased for 70 lira. I ride the bike onto the pavement in front of the entrance and deploy disk locks. My first night in Turkey!
Trials of an Idiot – A Beginners Story
Q By Nigel Cooper
Muscle Memory Let's wander off into the world of automotive electronics and fuel injection ECU's. These wonders of the modern world that have largely replaced carbs, at least on 4-strokes, have to work out continuously the exact right amount of fuel that needs to be injected into the engine at any instant in time. Although they use some pretty swift electronics, even so it is simply not possible for them to run an algorithm and calculate in real time this number from the raw inputs. Instead, they use a lookup map; a large table indexed on a key formed from a combination of all of the input values, like air temperature, engine temperature, engine revs, throttle position, oxygen what-not and maybe some others. This may be a bit of an oversimplification as I don't actually work in the automotive industry, but you get the core idea; you can't calculate this stuff in realtime, although I guess they must have to do some realtime interpolation, when the inputs fall between two entries…?
Now, just as the automotive engineers have to run their algorithms many, many times during development, to calculate all of the possible fuel settings needed in every possible combination of weathers, temperatures and throttle positions, and then store them away in the final chip; so we too need to practice, practice and practice again to develop that same memory of body position, weighting, hand and wrist movements and so on, so they are there for instant retrieval when actually trying to ride a section. The big problem for the beginner is that, well, let's face it, we don't have a friendly "engineer" writing the algorithm for us. We don't actually know how to calculate these settings. So before we can even start storing away precious settings, we need to first develop the algorithm to do that. We can help ourselves by doing some none-riding learning first. Quite how people got started in trials before the advent of the Interweb and YouTube I have no idea, but quite Continued overleaf 19
