Couldn't have said it better myself.I was told this one when I used to race peewee motocross:
Good speed follows good form. If you want to be fast, don't concentrate on improving your speed; concentrate on improving your skill, your technique, and your awareness, and the speed will come naturally. If you concentrate on going fast, you will probably get in over your head and crash.
always give yourself an out
To hot into a corner resulted in my one and only crash. Did just what I shouldn't have done, panic brake, stood the bike up, crossed lanes, ended up in the ditch. Lucky for me it was a quite back road. What I learned I should have done was just what you stated, "get off the brakes and lean lean and then lean more" I'm positive I would have make that corner if I'd have just stuck with it!just about any bike is more capable than you are a rider. if you go in too hot into a corner, try not to panic and not stand the bike up. get off the brakes and lean lean and then lean more, you may still make it through to the other side
I think that guys with BLACK 6R's with STOCK exhaust systems, especially, need to LIVE with this as their montra.Ride like you are invisible. It will give you the correct frame of mind to be prepared for the stupid things people do on the road that might get you killed.
Invisible....I live by this mantra, but why does this have to be a color thing?!? I don't think color or loud exhaust have very much, if all, to do with 'near misses'. I think lane position, staying out of blind spots, and riding defensively are way more effective. My headlight is brighter than your blue and underglows...plus, chics dig black!
I think that guys with BLACK 6R's with STOCK exhaust systems, especially, need to LIVE with this as their montra.
I live in a tourist town full of (no offence) New York and Mass plate SUV's etc and EVERY DAY I go out in the summer I have a neer miss.
AND, I have a bright blue bike with blue underglows, they still don't look.
AND everyone else is deliberately trying to kill you.Ride like you are invisible. It will give you the correct frame of mind to be prepared for the stupid things people do on the road that might get you killed.