New Ride Forever DVD

[RiderInBlack]

Hell I even drop old "Roxanne" (CBR1000F) down a gear or too for passing (gets ya past nice a quick).

[MSTRS:Me]

Why? Being in the right gear for quicker acceleration at the first instant a passing opportunity arises is good advice compared to the guy in the video pulling out and then dropping down a gear or two while slowly going past the drivers door.





His bikes are probably set up so light in the steering that he doesn't need to go pushing on the bars. Just looking at the corner and starting to lean in with his body would have his bikes rolling in. You don't need to consciously think of countersteering on a light steering bike. You steer them with your mind when looking at the line you want to take more than anything. Most street bikes are not set up that light in the steering as standard usually. So I can kind of understand his comments.

Seemed to me from the video that the 250 rider sat a bit close to the car he was about to overtake, but he dropped it 1 (or 2) as he wound it on and pulled out. Their advice was a bit ambiguous but I understood it to be basically start your manouevre well in advance, get up to speed before you overtake. This means you have to get your timing spot on, or you'll be in trouble if that car does something you didn't expect, like speeding up in the passing lanes.

Sure, a race bike will handle different to a road bike, but we don't ride race set-ups on the road, do we?? I know what you are getting at re 'steering with your mind', The reality is we kinda do that anyway (look where you are going) but the physical component still has to happen, that is, a tweak on the bars. A push (however subtle) on the right sends you to the right. Slight says that's a myth.

[Transalper]

Slighty might say it's a bit of a myth to him but that's why the others are there, they all pipe up and argue their side of it too, so seems to me that so long as you listen to all the opnions the DVD has it covered.