rocco wrote:ok i understand the advice you guys are giving but whats the correct technique for taking corners....on the last snowy ride i was getting overtaken by literally anyone who came up from behind....why?????....well i put it down to i was goingt he posted limit as the roads were moist/wet andi have never been in that part of the country b4.
12 of us in a group and i was the last to arrive. I found it intimidating and embarrassing.......i wasnt riding like a granny...but i wasnt carving up the corners like the rest either.
I am trying to build up confidence on my cornering and most riders if not all that were going on the road were really leaning beyond what my brain was saying is safe............how do i get rid of the chicken in me with regards to cornering?
the snowy ride wasnt enjoyable for me in respect to the twisities in the mountains as it was more a ride of survival for me instead of fun....you know the situations where your thinking" how long is this gunna take to finish...i want off asap"
i find myself slowing down what i would consider too much in readyness for tight corner...where most others seem to arrive and scoot staright out of them with little effort
I'll have a crack at this!
Getting your knee down for the first time (for all those OLD farts who have forgotten) is a fecking hoot!! And don't let anyone discourage you from having that as a goal! However, it is perhaps a more prudent and effective method to improve the riding ability and skill prior to attempting the knee down action!! It's kinda like your first root brother! Sure it's fun! But you'll fall out a fair few times, and peak too early! But after a while, when you have the techinique sussed, you can make her explode!
Now, as for the knee down thing! Without actual riding skill, the corner speed and lean angle you will be carrying will mean you will have to hang off it like a greyhound fucking a tennis ball!!! Best bet is learn to lean the thing over first, then work on adding body position and then some serious knee down action!!! This is why most are suggestion some sort of track oriented rider training. It may just point you in the right direction for improvement. Right now if you try it, you'll look like a right twat!!!!!
Usually, once you get there, you'll start grinding knee sliders away just for sport! But after a while the novelty wears off and you only use it for a guide with very little pressure. (Except in some corners...ie-turn 2 (Southern Loop) at the Island! I use it as a third brake entering the turn. On the road, it's only used in emergencies....ie-Corner tightens beyond initial judgement and I chuck my body off the inside to 1.Help it turn and 2.create more turn for the given lean angle. I used it on sunday for that exact reason. Came out of a left into what I thought was an opening right, but it tightened!!! Farking heaps!!!! I chewed a bit of seat foam before deciding I'd better lay the fucker over! Jumped off the inside of it and the knee kissed the tarmac just as a by product. Trust me it wasn't intentional....I had my jeans on!!!!
Ouch!
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me" Hunter S. Thompson.
There are really only two questions in life. 1.Which way do i go? 2.What is the lap record?
. Riding up the hills though I found that I often never got close to knee down and that I was much faster without trying.
