Several pics from my training
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Insure Gal
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pretty cool! :thumbup:
is that a tail bag on your pillion seat?
is that a tail bag on your pillion seat?
I also train right turns - but at night, when I can see police from far away.
Perhaps they would not be satisfied to see me doing roundabout in reverse.
I'm not gonna give up - it's gonna be either highside or knee thing! In both cases it's gonna be nice pictures, LOL.
LOL need to buy several signs "Road closed" to make private track - "Rat's Laguna Seca Raceway"...
Perhaps they would not be satisfied to see me doing roundabout in reverse.
I'm not gonna give up - it's gonna be either highside or knee thing! In both cases it's gonna be nice pictures, LOL.
LOL need to buy several signs "Road closed" to make private track - "Rat's Laguna Seca Raceway"...
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just a word of caution from someone that's been there. had me a buell firebolt that i could ride the piss out off, and did a right hander without knee sliders and actually HAD to lean it over to make the corner. didn't hit the ground, but i did manage to catch that 2" rock that was in the 'perfect' spot.
tore the crap out of both my jeans and knee but thankfully didn't dump it. if you are trying to get down that far, get some sliders and leathers.
my issue has always been not being able to find leather pants that fit. i'm 6'4" and skinny and without going custom, store bought (online only too) is just too hard. i've had four pair none of which fit right. i've since given up.
tore the crap out of both my jeans and knee but thankfully didn't dump it. if you are trying to get down that far, get some sliders and leathers.
my issue has always been not being able to find leather pants that fit. i'm 6'4" and skinny and without going custom, store bought (online only too) is just too hard. i've had four pair none of which fit right. i've since given up.
Great point. I saw a guy on highway 94 at the cafe stopped with a bloody knee and torn jeans because he didn't realize he was as close to dragging knee as he was. He left a nice layer of knee as well as his jeans on the road a few turns back. Not a pretty sight. So unless you're armored up underneath those pants, I'd suggest the same.
jcbrown630
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I advise reading "Twist of the wrist"
while not necessary to actually touch your knee (google "knee dragging" ), the idea is to hang off the bike, moving your center of gravity to the inside of a turn, requiring less lean angle of the bike for a given turn, or allowing more speed at higher lean angles.
It's something that takes practice, starting by slowing feeling comfortable slightly shifting your weight. Here's a decent article:
How to Drag Knee on a sport bike | eHow.com
Like Don mentioned, using proper body positioning will allow you to maintain the same speed with less lean angle around the same corner which will give more grip. And that will enable you to cary more speed at the same lean angle in the corner. It's also a lot more stable.
These two pictures will clear it up a lot. The first is from about 9 months ago, I'm sitting straight up on the bike, not using any body positioning at all. This is a 25mph turn and I'm going about 35mph with the pegs scraping the ground.
This picture is from last weekend in the same turn. Here I'm using better body positioning. (Still not quite right, but getting better) and I'm going about 55mph with about the same lean angle. If I'd tried to go this fast with the body positioning I had in the first pic, I'd have either lost the bike and lowsided, or just gone way wide and into the guardrail.
Here's another example from Highway 94. First I think is from February and I'm probably going 35.
This one is from a week ago and I'm going about 45 or 50 in the same turn.
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The thing I notice in your pics above Jon, is that in your before pics, you're not as adequately geared up (there may be armor under your jeans I dunno) as you are in the after pics. Obviously because over time you've acquired better gear. What kind of impact did that have on the way you ride?