In 1973 he succumbed to his passion completely and started a business making complete chassis etc. for racing machines. Many of these were highly successful, winning several championships in various countries. The range of machines built included championship winning sidecars as well. In the early 1980s. Tony began a project to improve upon the design of front suspension systems for motorcycles which culminated in the construction of a small number about 20 in all of road machines featuring these ideas, named QL Quantum Leap and the Q2. During the design phase for these machines he embarked on a series of experiments into the fundamentals of steering geometry, the results of which verified his long held beliefs that established practice had many failings. These experiments are detailed in his 1984 book “Motorcycle Handling & Chassis Design” , the 2002 book Motorcycle Handling and Chassis Design and in some of his numerous magazine articles. Since that time many standard production models and particularly racing machines have gradually moved toward the use of steering geometries as suggested by Mr. Foale. He has also consulted on various motorcycle projects including successfully advising a police force in regard to measures needed to cure stability problems with a large fleet of motorcycles. Unable to further tolerate the English climate he moved to Spain in 1987 where he acts as a consultant on various vehicular projects, specializing in chassis and suspension design, with particular interests in the development of computer simulation models predicting motorcycle behaviour. He also writes regular technical articles and is technical editor of the US based Motorcycle Consumer News. Also responsible for the motorcycle content of a masters degree programme in motorsport engineering given by Modragon University at Epsilon Euskadi in Spain.

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