I have no idea what that means - and can't find in on the net slang dictionaries - translation please.
Not on the centre line - close to it on left hand bends .. still on the left side of it.
This gives you the best cornering lines and allows the bike to apex and then accelerate out of the corner.
If something is coming the other way across the centre line you are gong to drop the bike into the corner, leaning and turning away from them anyway .. If the oncoming vehicle is way across the line you will be in the shit wherever you are in your lane.
Yeah - that's what I do ..
Yes - that's pretty stupid ..
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
Keep the bike wide until the corner opens out.
Strangely, keeping it wide gives you more lean angle, allowing you to carry more momentum.
After the the exit opens up, what you do next depends on what you face next. If thetes another corner in the same direction you can link the corners by keeping your width. If it's an opposite direction you'll narrow up to line up for that one.
The line on exit depends on what's happening next. Few corners exist in isolation.
Yeah - I do on left handers - if you look at it, the bike starts to turn way before the actual road curves - and you are about to drop the bike into a left hand turn aimed for the apex on the left-hand side, well away from any car coming the other way across the centre line. This gives you plenty of time of drop it in early if something is across the centre line.
On right hand corners start from the left - which gives you plenty of time to drop the bike over a little less and miss the car coming the other way on the wrong side. And in this right hand scenario the apex is not with the wheels on the white line - 'cause then you are leaning across the line into the path of anything coming the other way.
Pretty much - yes. Though on strange roads on blind corners you can't always see the apex - nor can you see the exit and you do not know where they are. Best guess at the time ... On familiar roads it's different. On unfamiliar roads I do take it a bit easier ...Assuming you do, do you stay out there until you can see the corner exit, then head for the apex?
And if you do stay out there that long on left hand turns you increase the chances of getting hit by a car coming across the centre line. As has been said, its all situational.
Depends on the corner .. I find the bandits are well balanced on the throttle so I tend to open the throttle and let the bike accelerate out of the corner, balancing on the throttle, not on the counter-steering. This takes fine throttle control. (It's also a bit hard on tyres - but fun. ) It's best not to slam the throttle open - or you will go off the road .. roll the power on so the bike stays in the corner and then lifts itself out of it as the power increases.What line do you take after the apex?
And sometimes I just cruise ..
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
this seems to happen a lot. I had a whole bunch of muppets on sports-bikes come past me just before a bunch of uphill corners (passing into oncoming traffic etc).
I then had to ride even slower because none of them could go round corners. they all then stopped for a smoke at a viewing point.
I assume they passed me because my bike looks slow (it is slow), it does however corner well without much slowing down, so i wouldn't have been holding them up.
Russ is a good watch, just remember the UK has some different laws to us.
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