Please don't enter blind corners too fast!

[justsomeguy]

You were saving it with your knee? You should be in MotoGP. I would have fallen off.

Na mate - the back would start to slide - I already had my knee dragging and you'd feel the pressure on your knee slightly increase - by pushing away with my knee I could lift the bike up slightly and it would feel a lot more stable.

That's what I did - I don't really know exactly what saving it with a knee actually means. What does it mean anyway??

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I hope you're not selling your RVF - that things a beauty. I miss my little CBR (as I do that fella with the goofy smile in the background) - lovely little machine that was

[Denniso]

When it comes to blind corners on the road I have a technique that I use to increace my chances of missing any hazard and that is to enter the corner as late as possable as if you start your turn into the corner too soon you commit yourself to a line that may hurt , if you leave your turn in as late as possable you are able to see further around the corner and adjust your line to suit any hazard . This does mean that you have to turn the bike faster but a little more bar input will see this right. Failing that on the road just slow down if you want to go fast go to a race track.

[Gremlin]

Denniso, that is called late apexing (apex being the innermost point in a corner you would touch), and a wise idea for road riding. With an early apex, you can run out of options, should something go awry, and often result in having to double apex.

As you say, a late apex allows you to keep your options open, should there be an issue. Equally, I find the best thing to do, is to see your line out of the corner, and only when it is visible, do you properly accelerate. This saves you from opening up early, and finding you still have more corner to negotiate.