How does our reality form? Modern day theories say that neurons are not the source of consciousness. Neurons are built from microtubules. Basically molecules, they harbor one particle in the center that is capable of a quantum state.

PART II

Visual system revisited (quantum consciousness)

When we are relaxed at our motorhome on Friday, these microtubules come to agreement about which state they in are approximately 40 times per second. When the mutually agreed upon result on state is 1, a neuron fires an impulse. And when the the result of those same states is 0, the neuron stays put. Either way, from all necessary neurons the reality we feel (see, taste, smell, hear, touch) comes to a standstill picture about 40 times per second. More than a film which is 25 (or 30) frames per second? Not to worry, our visual clock is slower still. And just before we race and during a race and on every practice we approach a fast turn, again those same microtubules’ quantum state collapses up to 80x per second. That’s an 80Hz asynchronous computer we’re talking about!

Now, nerve impulses vary from 0.3 m/s to 100m/s. For argument sake, let’s use the bigger number. When we touch something with our toe, and when we are 2 meters tall, we should feel it no faster than 0,02 second later. Can we SEE the differences between two events, separated by 0.01 sec? Yes. We can hear difference that is 0,004 sec apart. The problem is, when we touch something with our toe, we see and feel it simultaneously, at the same time. One explanation is that we have a slow vision system. The other is, brain can go backwards in time. No, not the brain the microtubule.

Tests have shown that the brain actuallyu fires up sometimes a couple of tenths before the actual nerve impulse. The solution is we anticipate the sensation and the brain feeds us first the anticipation and later, the real feeling. Now, lets use all that on our heads up display. Showing green glowing digital numbers representing current speed is so 80-s. Lets have several next generation x-boxes to render all visual field. Almost the same that a rider would see when looking just out of his/her (Katja Poensgen)? visor. But just “almost”. Lets make the road a little bit wider. Lets make the Corkscrew look almost flat and stretched out. That way the rider will think that he has more space and on the Corkscrew he has more acceleration.

If at the Brno race last year, Nicky would have been given such a helmet the computer would have erased a crashing Biaggi from his vision field and rendered him taking the corner successfully and later, on the straight Max retires with a mechanical problem, slowly stopping on the edge of the track. Even waving gallantly when Nicky passes. That way the computer keeps a riders attention on riding and not on crashes, which are more interesting to watch and easier to concentrate on. And that’s not all. Like on MotoGP4 on PS2, you can have your line from the previous lap painted on your virtual pavement with a big friendly blue color. And places where you braked, in red. Of course, you have your buttons under your left thumb to choose the braking point up to 10% later than usual and to avoid somebody doing the fast last lap trick the computer can guide your bike (and you) the same way you did on your previous lap. Every lap, right to the finish.

Optimal maneuvers (more mathematics than the doctor ordered)

For every corner-bike-tires-rider combination, there is the fastest way around that corner. Quite easily computable, too. That’s what the Ultimate racer is busy doing on first Friday practice. Of course, the computer has access to every corner on every track with every temperature and weather there has ever been a tire turned. With 3 teams, it’s six bikes. That’s some serious data to do safe generalization. And then, in the heat of the race, you’re approaching to corner waaay too hot.

The bike lets you reach those theoretical limits, then lowers the pressure on your tires, making a bigger contact patch with the pavement, brakes accordingly, notches down a gear, steers to the optimal point and sends a few impulses to the rider’s body to move where needed. Oh, and makes an evasive maneuver. At the same time, the other riders sees that he braked exactly on his brake marker, which is in the correct spot on the track to make a turn and that’s the way it goes. When later asked then he says he didn’t see the other rider who was about to overtake him.

“Race was good, a very harrrrd battle for sure.

Less orthodox ways around the track

Remember 1972? They started dragging the knee. 2000? King of Slide, McCoy showed how to take a corner with the rear tire spinning maniacally. Geometry changes, carbon disks, handlebars, swingarms… Everything has in racing has been transformed to something better, but there has been few quantum leaps. These are some of things I imagine when I can’t sleep and stare the ceiling:

Rolling knee sliders, legs as extra brakes by using the knee as a rolling point, just like tires; we have a totally stable and solid tripod. With the right size of rolling knee sliders, hell, mount extra tires to your knees! the corner speed will increase dramatically. For long corners, that may be even a second or more.

Missed your braking marker by about a mile? No problem. Slam the bike to its side, which is covered with a slimy, sticky, gecko-like substance. It won’t come off, it will not skid either. Just like that bubblegum on a hot day, it will stick, bend and stretch. Like a bad glue it will stick to the pavement. Up to 2G deceleration even. And no, you can’t use it on every corner. Just for those emergencies, like the last lap last corner when you’re in 4th position and you really want to finish on the podium. Or win.

Never liked those park and turn S-curves? Me neither. Enter the corner, spin the rear tire up, shut the throttle, grab the bike with your legs and hands like the devil wants to take your favorite bike away, and spend some quality airtime over the corner, landing exactly lined up. It takes practice, if not 9 lives, but it really works.

For the slow corners, endos are recommended. Brake it into corner and at the tightest part let your rear tire leave the ground and use the front tires gyroscopic force to turn your bike. Much tighter lines. You know you have the traction, you know you have reached to the limit of lean angle. Climb entirely to one side of the bike, making a true centre of the mass move even more inside the orner and letting the bike stand up a little bit. You can lean the bike even more then.

And these are not all the possibilities that theoretical models allow us to accomplish.

But for starters, these are a few nice tricks to start training on

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