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Originally Posted by OTB
...Conversly, slamming the throttle shut mid-turn in response to coming in too hot or making panicky mid-course corrections has just the opposite effects...... sudden unloading of the rear (and the decrease of traction that goes with lack of load), shortening of rake and trail (and the sudden quickening of steering that accompanies it) adding load to the front tire.
...Get your braking done early, and use a little positive throttle ALONG WITH A LITTLE BIT OF REAR BRAKE to encourage squat and the additional rear traction that goes with it.
Happy Riding
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Going up Lookout Mountain, it's pretty much all throttle control. Coming downhill is a different story. There is this one section where you can come down a straight section around 60. This leads into a 15 MPH hairpin turn. The road is steep, crowned, and no shoulder.
I start braking, front and rear before the turn. I forgot, the road jogs to the right before it hairpins to the left. I also start leaning off the bike while I'm in the jog.
I keep the brakes on in the turn. This probably goes against what every racer has said or written. But like OTB says above, if you go off the front brakes, the front rises and loses traction. You can't give it gas in this situation to load the rear, but with the rear brake on, the rear is loaded.
About seven-eights through the turn I let off the brakes and start giving it gas. It looks and feels so smooth. Like I've been doing it a thousand times. Actually, I have done it a thousand times. But I've seen bicyclists crash there, and I've stopped to move motorcycle fairing parts off the road.