MOTORCYCLES

MOTORCYCLE TESTING

NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT TO RIDER SAFETY

The Challenge:

• Motorcycle testing including OEM, aftermarket and occupant safety testing
  
• eXcentive needed to test a new motorbike fork design featuring a deformable quadrilateral overlap on the wheel vs. the traditional telescopic fork
  
• Field test strain, acceleration and vibration on the Circuit de Nogaro race track in France
  
• Extremely limited size, weight and space constraints for instrumentation
  
• No complicated cable runs that could tangle or alter test dynamics at high track speeds
  
• Instrumentation needed to be crashworthy
  

The Solution:

• Ultra-small DTS data acquisition systems and sensors
• eXcentive selected the miniature SLICE NANO that was mounted directly on the fork
• A 6-channel NANO DAS module was positioned near the sensors, eliminating complicated cabling
• The low mass, lightweight system did not alter test dynamics or center of gravity
• No special housing required to protect the high-shock rated DAS
• Store in place reliability, data writes directly to flash memory
• Trusted complete solution provider and automotive safety testing experts