Ah, the STEER axis, now you have my attention. Makes more sense, too.

I still need to get back to read up on shimmy from Olley... I've spent the last few days trying to get projects together for the snowmobile team, it's 110% season around here right now.

Maybe it's worth removing some "feel" to instill some stability in the vehicle -- and driver by allowing friction to exist as a damper? That seems counter intuitive and more like a band-aid solution. Hm...I'll read up more before trying to infer too much. In the case of Monash, I'll have to go scrape what information I can from pictures. Do you, or perhaps someone else, know some one at Monash that'd be willing to talk with me? I'm curious what else they may be taking into account that I could consider to further my concept, such as if aero plays a balance that may have more effects on the driver and feedback than numbers alone could tell me right now...

Thanks.