Had a good ride this afternoon, scrubbing in the new rear tyre ready for the track day. Amazing how different it feels on the road - I trust the bike much more in the corners.
Anyway. El Bandido is an in-line 4, and makes power best between 9-13K, which is fine out in the sweepers where I spend most of the time switching up and down between the same two or three gears, with decent intervals between changes.
However, coming off straight-ish bits of road into sharper corners involves hard braking and tapping down two or three gears to set myself and the bike up in the right gear for the corner, before I tip in. I'm getting a lot of tail wiggle and lockup when I try to do this at a reasonable speed - the revs are far too low for the lower gear.
I know I need to learn to blip the throttle to match the engine revs for the lower gear - I've read this, this and this.
So I need to brake, change down, hold the clutch in, increase the revs to the correct level, then let the clutch out, right?
My question is: How do I brake reasonably hard, and adjust the throttle position at the same time? How do I twist the throttle and still maintain a decent brake pressure?
Does anyone have any tips for practising this? Like, breaking it down into discrete steps I can practice one at a time?
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