New thread : Sliding the rear

[HDTboy]

Oi!!!!!! Don't feed the fatty!!!!!!!

[sisterecho]

Oi!!!!!! Don't feed the fatty!!!!!!!

Super Chocolate Marshmallow Fudge and Chocolate Rum Truffles are on the menu for next round. Gotta slow him down somehow!!!

[cowpoos]

Super Chocolate Marshmallow Fudge and Chocolate Rum Truffles are on the menu for next round. Gotta slow him down somehow!!!

can we have caramel slice toooooooo!!!!! please please princess Leah!!!!

[cowpoos]

oh.....and my advice to sliding the rear...get a more powerful bike...it will make it safer and easier to learn...or a dirt bike if you can...when I do it...its a bit different from Jays technique...on the road bike,I weight the inside peg bit after the apex...and give the throttle a big hand full [pays to know your bike when doing things by handfulls] and hold it!! don't back off the throttle [ever!! it hurts more high siding than lowsiding!!!] and start sitting the bike up by pushing the high side bar away from you...not counter steering it...add more throttle as desired ....on a dirt bike very similar...except start throttling before the apex a lil to steady the chassis...and roll on the throttle gererously...weight the outside peg...and play!! try to keep firmly attached to the dirt bike while sliding...with out death gripping the bars...holding on to the bars to firmly interfer's with chassis a heap...

[Kflasher]

I havent tried on the road but would definately try in a dewy paddock or gravel road on a dirt bike.This is a good way to learn what the bike is doing in the slide etc and how to correct.
Once you take those skills to tarseal you have to then consider the tyres you are using,the road compound , weather conditions etc.
Good luck-sounds like fun.

Wet grass (hard ground) on road tyres is a good place to start, buy yourself a cheap bike to practise on...VT250 on wet grass was good enough.
I farked all farings and other shite.
I started just contoling a spinning take off.
Always wear you safety gear... Always, you will drop it, my little fingers show the practice and damage that can happen.
...my 2 cents...

[Two Smoker]

Super Chocolate Marshmallow Fudge and Chocolate Rum Truffles are on the menu for next round. Gotta slow him down somehow!!!

So Jay's Superior bike and riding skills isnt enough??? Now you have to resort to food warfare lol.... MMMMMMmmmmm fudge truffles... Ill be huge in no time!!! Maybe i should be in a Zoo??? With signs all around me saying dont feed the fatty????

[jrandom]

Just a word, chaps - I highsided on Wednesday evening precisely because I was unused to sliding the rear.

Riding a spun-up rear wheel through a corner isn't stunting, it's valuable bike handling skills. I'll be practising it in controlled conditions (starting on a dirtbike) as soon as my hand's out of the cast.

[Virago]

Just a word, chaps - I highsided on Wednesday evening precisely because I was unused to sliding the rear.

Riding a spun-up rear wheel through a corner isn't stunting, it's valuable bike handling skills. I'll be practising it in controlled conditions (starting on a dirtbike) as soon as my hand's out of the cast.

I don't know how, but I've managed to survive 30 years of riding without learning to slide the rear tyre. Perhaps I should be worried about my appalling lack of skills?

Perhaps when these guys are all healed up, and have put their bikes back together, they can teach the rest of us how to ride properly?

[jrandom]

I don't know how, but I've managed to survive 30 years of riding without learning to slide the rear tyre. Perhaps I should be worried about my appalling lack of skills?

If you don't choose to ride bikes that will break the rear end loose with a twitch of the throttle, it's not something to worry about.

[Virago]

If you don't choose to ride bikes that will break the rear end loose with a twitch of the throttle, it's not something to worry about.

I've just caught up with your bin thread - my above leg-pull post sounded rather unsympathetic - all the best for your recovery.

[Drew]

I'm not sure if I have a technique, but when the rear does let go, (only ever tried on purpose a few times), I move as far off the inside of the bike as I can, and keep the gas on. Turns out that's just how I corner now when I'm going for it, so not sure what I'll do when it starts happening again.

At Taupo on the thou, it was happening all the time, to the point where I literally thought I was crashing, in those instances, I mashed my knee into the ground and hung on for dear life.

The best thing I can think to say, (and I'm sure I'll get hammered for it), is that it's almost comletely throttle control, and the BEST THING for learning throttle control, is wheelies!!! Not the easy power stands everyone can do on a modern sportsbike, but the ones where you are in actual control of the bike.

Stunt sliding is something else, and I've not got my stunta back from the shop yet, but once I do, I'll put driftin' on my list of things to self teach.

Peace out.

[ZeroIndex]

These guys know what they're doing...