It has a smaller stance, the company says, specifically to attract smaller riders, female riders, or first-time riders who might be intimidated by a full-size Indian -- much as competitor, and segment leader, Harley-Davidson has done with its Sportster and new Street 500 and Street 750 bikes.
Males had a smaller stance and DLS, and a larger swing and SLS compared to females.
Males walked with a smaller stance and double limb support, and with a larger swing and single limb support compared to females.
Lower ground clearance- a smaller stance increases sex appeal.
At high enough speeds and stride lengths, a simple point mass model of bipedal locomotion suggests that an infinitely stiff, straight leg with zero sweep angle ('impulsive running', Srinivasan & Ruina 2006) minimizes mechanical cost of transport (MCoT) (figure 1 b, black line), because stiff legs with small stance angles reduce fluctuations in forward velocity and kinetic energy.
Next, to see whether a wider stance actually causes attractiveness and not the other way around, the researchers took to dating applications in San Francisco, California, recording how many people matched with fake profiles that had big or small stances.
He worked to correct a small flaw in his stance because he knows the likelihood of the Yankees' beating the Angels with six regulars hitting below.250 is remote.
In Ms. Vikander's case, putting herself and her daughter front and center seemed like a small way to make her stance known.
"The unions have jeopardized the entire immigration reform effort, which would provide a pathway to legalization and citizenship for the 10-11 million undocumented workers, because of their refusal to take a responsible stance on a small temporary worker program.
This reminds me curiously of the stubborn last-ditch stance of a small segment of the American left throughout most of the Cold War period: the little band of thinkers and activists who called themselves democratic socialists.
The R&A's stance goes a small way to improving it, but in the end it will be the fact of not having the Open, and the enormous financial cash cow that that is, that changes the minds of the Muirfield membership.
