How to hang off the bike

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Originally Posted by Trip

You rotate around the tank and square your shoulders, not your hips.

Originally Posted by zortness

Pridmore says rotate around the tank (imagine you had a string going from your suit to your gas cap) only about 3 - 4 inches. This can change depending on the turn and ground clearance, but that's a good baseline. I find this puts about half of my ass off the seat, sometimes more. It also keeps your inside knee tucked in closer to your fairings, so you get a more accurate feel of how far the bike is actually leaned over.

Maybe we're all misunderstanding eachother but I still think this pivot around the tank thing is bullshit. Maybe just the way you guys are describing it is confusing me though...

I'm not trying to start an argument but I've been thinking about this and talking to some track folks about it.

I don't see any benefit to NOT squaring your hips to the bike. (Pridmore can do whatever he wants at that level so leave him out of it). All it's going to do is encourage bad things, like crossing up, bar pressure, not looking through the turn, not leading with your shoulder/chin, etc etc etc....

Square the hips and shoulders, bodyline parallel to bike centerline. This is what I do, this is what I see all the pros doing. Very slight deviations from this depending on the rider and what makes them comfortable and relaxed. Maybe a larger deviation for some people (pridmore, doohan, duhamel, etc etc etc)... but the general rule of thumb is what I described... eh?





Or maybe I'm just not understanding what you guys are saying????