Another thing an instructor and very fast rider told me is that even the slightest bit of bar pressure mid turn not only decreases the bike's ability to stay settled and correct itself, but also increases the radius of your turn.
For example, if you are leaned over and still have pressure on the inside bar, the bike will continue to track more straight than if you let go of it. That's literally how important it is to reduce bar pressure; reducing bar pressure is what really allows the bike to hook into the turn and bite towards the apex.
It's also the reason why people are still completing their turn post-apex, when in reality all your turning should be done and you should be getting on the gas and standing the bike up, allowing the throttle to cause you to track out as you get to WOT and the bike is stood up.
I try to keep a feather's touch on my bars, holding the throttle where it is with a thumb and two fingers, and the other hand with barely a grip on the bars. I know I'm doing it right when I can feel the handlebars jiggling around inside my loosely gripping hands.
That being said, I'm not always good with this, and it's the hardest thing for me and many riders.
I've thought a lot about this stuff since getting this advice and can't wait to keep working on it.
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Originally Posted by No Worries
Wait a second. When you are riding mountains or canyons, there is no time between curves to rotate hips, weigh your feet, or hug the tank.
There is just no time to think about the other things, let alone do them, in the short amount of time that curves change direction in a canyon.
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There's plenty of time... ever ride NHMS?
And as far as think them... that's the point of practice, so it becomes automatic technique. Keith Code's $10 of attention, anyone?
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Originally Posted by DLIT
Thanks, Kurt.
I like this thread.
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with both. Thanks Zort. And I like when we actual talk motorcycle technique on here
