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There's canadian train tours an Australian bike magazine I used to get. In it, the Editor writes terrific tips on everything from maintenance to city riding. I don't know the guy, but I can sense his enthusiasm and I like it. But every now and then he ventures into performance-riding advice. canadian train tours Keep in mind that he has three or four columnists who are extremely well-known in the racing community because they are extremely successful, seriously talented. But despite this pool of talent canadian train tours on his staff, this Editor writes his own version of reality and physics, canadian train tours a version that falls apart in an awful mess just about the time a rider really needs it.
To be specific: This Editor wrote that you should increase throttle when you get into a turn too fast because the increasing throttle affects the bike's swingarm geometry and will help the bike turn.
Get your bike into a parking lot and ride in a circle of any size. Hold constant throttle and constant lean angle to hold a constant radius. Now, gently roll-on the throttle and do your best to maintain the same lean angle (not the same radius, the same lean angle). What does your radius do? Tighten or open?
When you open the throttle in the circle, what would you have to do to maintain the same radius as steady throttle? Yes…add lean angle. We make a point on fastersafer.com and at YCRS to equate "lean angle" canadian train tours with "risk". So increasing throttle wants to open your radius, but you are then adding risk to keep the bike on the same radius. Scary…and the faster you ride or the tighter the corner, the worse it gets. I want to teach you riding techniques that work when the pace is up or the grip is down.
The Editor's version of what the bike was doing was about as wrong as it gets. Increasing throttle moves weight to the back of the bike, extending the forks and opening your steering-geometry numbers. Mile-per-hour comes up. The bike begins to run a wider radius at the same lean angle.
Are you beginning to see how new riders crash their brains out when presented canadian train tours with the instruction this Editor and others offer? "If you're into the corner too fast, open the throttle and push on the inside bar." That's taken verbatim from a new rider's school my friend attended.
Slowing a motorcycle tightens canadian train tours the radius of the corner at the same lean angle (risk). This Editor's advice has a rider using the exact opposite canadian train tours control we are advising. We say, "When you get into a corner too fast, leave the throttle shut, feather canadian train tours your brakes, keep looking through the corner." Accelerate? Only when you can see the exit and take away lean angle.
Please read that last paragraph again. Please…so we can improve this sport's safety canadian train tours record, grow motorcycling and increase riding technique to the level of modern motorcycles and tires. You know what I'm beginning to believe? No riding advice is better than most of the riding advice we hear and read these days. Do any of you add throttle in your car/truck/bus/van/go-kart if you get into the corner too fast? No! Yet "riding instructors" and this Editor with a world-wide mouthpiece insist that you do.
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canadian train tours I can t believe that anyone would advise the average or novice rider to add throttle when they find themselves going into a corner too hot. We have all been there in that situation. I agree with you that loading the front wheel just a bit more using both brakes, and increasing counter steer slightly is a lot safer than trying to power through the corner.
This was a fabulous article! I can t tell you how many times people have told me this same incorrect advice. canadian train tours I m pretty good on a bike and riding a motorcycle has become very intuitive canadian train tours to me. I have definitely experienced this bad advice myself, canadian train tours however when I took that corner too fast I knew that I either had to lean it harder or slow it up. Thankfully my intuition served me well and I was able to slow it up and keep the same lean angle. Also, im no riding coach, but if you are a new rider you should not be riding too fast for your skills. You need to be skilled and experienced in order to lean it harder and ride faster through turns. And it also depends on the bike you have. Don t ride harder than your bike can handle. A Harley can t necessarily take turns as fast as a sport bike, so you shouldn t be trying to keep up with them.
If you haven t been down before, during, or after a turn-it s not a matter of if it s going to happen-it s a matter of when. In 1990, I was riding with over 15 years experience under my belt (mostly street), I broke two ribs jumping on top of my street bike as I failed to negotiate a left turn onto a North County canadian train tours San Diego intersection, surfing across all four lanes of traffic. I was very fortunate to walk away basically canadian train tours unscathed. I did not ride on the street canadian train tours for many years. I realized that my risk management skills were not in my best interest, ha-ha. After several years back on the single track and off road riding, I took back to the streets. I have taken safety courses that push you to break bad habits, and look at creating new techniques to be more defensive and safe on the road. Those habits are created to do just that. They are not put in place to be a racer on the street. While I am still considered a throttle canadian train tours junkie, and with 100 s of 1,000 s of miles under my belt-the one thing that I do know about cornering is that I (you do whatever you want) do NOT want to brake in a turn. This braking in a curve physics also decreases traction and puts you at risk for loss of control. braking before a turn? Absolutely! canadian train tours You don t want to lose traction, period! If you don t want to lose traction, why would you brake in a turn?
I have also used this speed up/steering technique only when I needed to (because I was being a dumb #ss in negotiating a curve) and managed to pull it off a few times- but NOT without also changing the bank angle. The highest fatality rate on a motorcycle is failure to negotiate a curve. In knowing that, there is plenty of risk to manage in cornering. The more you manage and the less you push the limits, the less your risk. It s kinda like don t wait until you are in that position to say WTF ? Better yet, manage the risk, and hope you have the luck to pull through it when it happens. I like to ride three steps below my skill level, so even when I push myself I am still just at the peak of my level. If I find myself mus-judging turns and not able to stop soon enough, or having to brake in a turn (not good) then perhaps canadian train tours my management skills canadian train tours are being compromised. Bottom line is just this-practicing negotiating curves and managing that risk behind it may prevent me from having to resort to drastic measures like throttling/banking in, or braking in the middle of a curve! Hello, Mc Fly ?
I do agree that it takes practice and knowing the limits of your tires, bike handling characteristics and having an intimate knowledge of the road/corner that you are negotiating. But to say (you do whatever you want) do NOT want to brake in a turn is not the best advice either.
I have to disagree with you on the braking. I m not a racer, so perhaps my outlook is a little different, however: Braking in a curve seriously compromises the bike suspension and takes a great deal of turning traction out of the bike s capacity.
I don t think racers use braking in a corner except under extreme misjudgement conditions. Bikes only do 1 thing well at a time. If you are constantly braking in corners then my humble opinion is that you are both wasting turning traction (inefficient) and pushing your risk way up the ladder
This sounds like they are talking about flat-track racing or dirt bikes. In both instances you can slide the rear-end in order to increase your turning radius. canadian train tours In both also, you need to break the rear