Get some cornering practice.

**WRT** · 9th December 2005, 10:51

Sorry if you guys have seen this before, but I havent spotted it on here so far, so here goes.

The thing about this clip is how quickly the guy is dropping this bike (VFR400?? Not sure) onto its line. He's not going nuts trying to get his knee down, hes not even moving his lower body around on the bike all that much. But as he comes up to the corner, he just DROPS it into the turn. No lining it up, no leaning it over, just BANG - goes from vertical to the right angle for the corner as fast as possible - and he gets it right every time. Doesnt often need to adjust his line as he corners.

Impressive to watch.

**Eurodave** · 9th December 2005, 11:01

Top riding that man,

shit I got lost after the first few corners!!

**phoenixgtr** · 9th December 2005, 11:13

Nice. Youre right tho...he goes from upright to right over like its nothing!!

**stunz** · 9th December 2005, 11:27

what confuzzled me was how the heck he knew where he was going...I got lost after the first corner...

**Postie** · 9th December 2005, 11:29

maybe he just makes it up and gets style points......... i'm sure i'm wrong. still, serious skills there

**WRT** · 9th December 2005, 11:36

Took me a while to realise what was going on at the end when he put his foot down. I think I seriously expected him to just keep riding until he either fell off or ran out of gas. Its kind of mesmerising to watch.

It looks like a timed circuit, so I would say that he has done that a few times in the past . . .

**MSTRS:Me** · 9th December 2005, 11:39

Originally Posted by WRT

Took me a while to realise what was going on at the end when he put his foot down. I think I seriously expected him to just keep riding until he either fell off or ran out of gas. Its kind of mesmerising to watch.

It looks like a timed circuit, so I would say that he has done that a few times in the past . . .

Yep....practise and familiarity with bike & course. Note how he lifts & drops his upper body to assist with COG changes. Cool to watch.

**TwoSeven** · 9th December 2005, 11:46

Its a good sport that one, a chap I knew in london years ago who did cbt training had a course marked out. Used to take my F2 round it - fun. I used to have problems with tight cones, the F2 required a partial stoppie turn to get round em - he swore you didnt need to but I never figured out how unless you were on a scooter.

The quick turning is easy, just requires not being so lazy on the turning - looks like he is just simply muscling the bars. Nice throttle work tho I thought.

Surprised they dont run those comps here tho.

**Lou Girardin** · 9th December 2005, 12:07

If he tried hanging off he wouldn't have been able to make such quick transitions. Great skills, would be useful in traffic.

**gamgee** · 9th December 2005, 12:31

does anyone know what sort of bike that is? it looks (and sounds) more 250ish like an older vtr250 or something

**XP@** · 9th December 2005, 12:49

I can do that... well maybe not but I'd sure like to try!

Anyone in the welly area got a 250 they would lend me and a large car park?

**sAsLEX** · 9th December 2005, 13:13

Originally Posted by gamgee

does anyone know what sort of bike that is? it looks (and sounds) more 250ish like an older vtr250 or something

VFR400 the model before the nc30 dunno what it is called. Exhaust on the non swingarm side ...

**onearmedbandit** · 9th December 2005, 13:17

NC24 VFR400.

**Korea** · 9th December 2005, 13:24

Mmmm! Saw something similar with Japanese police bikers doing a training circuit, equally tight and twisty on VT750's~ I think.
This guy has some mad skills alright.
It's all in the steering! A quick counter-steer push on the inside handle bar and the bike falls into the turn. When he reaches the right angle he keeps it there - and so should you. Keep steering inputs to a minimum, preferably one, or you'll upset the the bike in the corner (get it right in the entry).
Meanwhile, you too can have this level of cornering apptitude by training in Tokyo traffic!