{"podcast":{"title":"Cycle World Podcast","slug":"cycle-world-podcast-6850183","podcast_index_feed_id":6850183,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f21971c8/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.cycleworld.com/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/40517538/40517538-1708031741773-291ca4fee196.jpg","author":"Cycle World","episode_count":122,"summary":"Join Technical Editor Kevin Cameron and Editor-in-Chief Mark Hoyer for the weekly Cycle World podcast for lively conversations about motorcycles and the people who build and ride them. Cameron’s legendary knowledge and ability to describe highly technical subjects in ways that are easy to understand allies with Hoyer’s massive testing background and hands-on work in the CW garage.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cycle-world-podcast-6850183"},"episode":{"title":"WEIGHT TRANSFER and Motorcycle Handling--To wheelie or not?","slug":"weight-transfer-and-motorcycle-handling-to-wheelie-or-not","published_at":"2026-03-18T16:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cycle-world-podcast-6850183/weight-transfer-and-motorcycle-handling-to-wheelie-or-not","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cycle-world-podcast-6850183","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cycle-world/episodes/WEIGHT-TRANSFER-and-Motorcycle-Handling--To-wheelie-or-not-e3gko23","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f21971c8/podcast/play/117120515/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-2-18%2F420284157-44100-2-8322dbd7273a8.mp3","summary":"How many ways have motorcycle designers gotten it wrong? So many! One of these was chasing an ultra-low center of gravity on motorcycles, only to find it made handling worse! How have we settled on 20-22 inches off the ground for center of gravity? Because it works, and transfers weight on the front wheel during braking and to the rear wheel when accelerating. The right C of G also assists us when tipping into a corner. Technical Editor Kevin Cameron and Editor-in-Chief Mark Hoyer discuss motorcycle weight transfer and motorcycling handling. Our favorite moments of weight transfer? Wheelies and stoppies, of course!","meta_description":"How many ways have motorcycle designers gotten it wrong? So many! One of these was chasing an ultra-low center of gravity on motorcycles, only to find it…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3890,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/cycle-world-podcast-6850183/episodes/weight-transfer-and-motorcycle-handling-to-wheelie-or-not/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cycle-world-podcast-6850183/weight-transfer-and-motorcycle-handling-to-wheelie-or-not.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}