• Just thought that with speeds increasing all the time, the -ve camber steer has grown over time. Someone might have tried something... presumably the velodrome design has adopted?

    Camber has been +/-40° on the road for years, remember Jobst showing us that slicks were the way to go back in the 70s

    Unless you stop mid corner on the track, camber at the velodrome is always less than this. Maximum speeds at the velodrome haven't actually gone up a huge amount - the flying 200m was done in <12s at the 1948 Olympics, the world record is now 9.572. That probably means that total lean angle (banking + camber) has changed by 10° in 60 years.

    Again, camber steer is only a problem if you make it one. For over a century, people have placed the wheel axles at right angles to the plane of the bicycle and not had to worry about it.

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