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How not to corner
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 9:45 pm
by robracer
Keep stumbling across MH drive videos, don't know if I should laugh at this sad attempt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up2UvuRL ... =fvwp&NR=1
Re: How not to corner
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 9:49 pm
by Wattie
i've spent countless hours watching vids by Mickeymouse
i love how everytime someone crashes, they are shocked!
Re: How not to corner
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 9:50 pm
by Disco
Looking at it it seem's he locked the rear
....The pach on the tyre from where he hit the dirt dosn't move
...Was he trying to back it in and farked up????
How not to corner
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:11 pm
by Wattie
Read the description Disco
Re: How not to corner
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:12 pm
by aardvark
Looks like a prime example of target fixation to me.
Re: How not to corner
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:18 pm
by Disco
Wattie wrote:Read the description Disco
Didn't see that bit
....Wonder why he went to the rear and not a fist full of front ?...I know it say's he panicked but if you panic do you stomp the rear???...Just curios half the time I forget I have a rear brake
Re: How not to corner
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:35 pm
by MrWasabi
i tend to stomp the rear brake in a panic situation. had one yesterday actually, i keep trying to retrain myself to just use the front but for some reason in a panic situation i seem to give it more rear than front. Never lock it up for as long as this rider did, its more of a short chirp and thats enough to prompt me to squeeze the front harder and loosen the back up a bit.
Funny because on the track i dont even use the rear, dont know why i cant transfer that across to the road.
How not to corner
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 11:16 pm
by Blurr
Rear brake is a good tool, don't be afraid to use it.
In the dirt disco the rear will be your biggest friend
Re: How not to corner
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 12:57 am
by seiko1
Jesus Dave....you grab a handful of front?
Never ever touch the front hard in a corner!!!!!
Re: How not to corner
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 7:55 am
by Tack
How not to corner
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 8:38 am
by Wattie
seiko1 wrote:Jesus Dave....you grab a handful of front?
Never ever touch the front hard in a corner!!!!!
It's ok ti brake into the corner, I wouldn't be grabbing handfuls mid corner while cranked over scraping pegs/knee.
The guy was going slow enough to
Take the corner anyway, he just didn't know it.
Re: How not to corner
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 8:55 am
by ty
Looks like he wasn't the first to hit that barrier in that spot
Re: How not to corner
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 10:47 am
by Nelso
Re: How not to corner
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 12:54 pm
by seiko1
Nelso wrote:
It's just a new wave "atomic stoppy"
Re: How not to corner
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 2:00 pm
by z900/zx9
Thats bizzare
must be a newbie or returning rider or had some kind of brain fart,probably all of the above