Leaning versus Knee Down

[No Worries]

Originally Posted by HRCNICK11

I'd like to point out that different corners and surfaces require far different body position. A slow tight corner is far different than a fast sweeper. Toss in wet pavement or dirt and you'll get even more.

I used to think that leaning way off was faster in every corner till I got passed by some insainly fast supermoto bikes with the rider leaned way the wrong way and the bar nearly touching the ground. I did not understand how that worked till I rode on the ice this winter. It works well.

Riding a dirt bike in dirt bike style is fine. But this guy is riding his dirt bike as if there was a berm there. There is no berm there, it's flat. And that folded-up peg looks like it's a millimeter from lifting the rear tire off the ground and losing traction.

Myself, I like traction, and I like to ride faster going out of a curve than I do going into it. I maintain traction by leaning way off the bike, and keeping the bike as upright as possible. This allows me to be as quick and as safe as possible. I kind of like that.

But I don't ride dirt bikes or race bikes, and I don't ride on dirt tracks or race tracks with the same dozen curves. I ride steep, tight, mountain roads with dozens of curves. I rode with sfarson on two of my favorite roads. There were at least 200 curves. He was unbelievably fast going up and scary-fast coming down. But he knows how to ride and lean.