Moving weight around bike to suit cornering?

[Cr1MiNaL]

whoever said not to shift weight and lean off a bike on the road imho knows sweet fuk all. road riding is 2ce as more dangerous than track riding. Thats all. YR64L out.

[discotex]

Not sure if this will work but I found a real useful shortcut on Kiwibiker the other day.This should clarify any concerns and be of value to most.

You could at least pay the guy by buying the book as I linked to before. It's only $32 for jebus sake.

Stealing from someone that's put so much into biker education is pretty lame. In fact I believe his family has already visited KB to remind people it's not a free book.

Then again it's a steal music, steal movies, steal books kinda world. Guess you can't complain some people steal bikes and cars too eh... I mean shit.. I'm only borrowing it. I'll buy if it's good right?

/rant

[Mike748]

IMHO there is shifting weight (bum and shoulders) and there is hanging off (knee down) and they are quite different.
For me shifting weight helps me on unfamiliar corners.
However I also buy into the fact that there is more than one style of riding and that experience, confidence and equipment will rule.

[mitchilin]

You could at least pay the guy by buying the book as I linked to before. It's only $32 for jebus sake.

Stealing from someone that's put so much into biker education is pretty lame. In fact I believe his family has already visited KB to remind people it's not a free book.

Then again it's a steal music, steal movies, steal books kinda world. Guess you can't complain some people steal bikes and cars too eh... I mean shit.. I'm only borrowing it. I'll buy if it's good right?

/rant

Fair enough comment.I just spent $70 on "The Soft Science of Motorcycle racing "so it is a bargain at $32.And I don't feel it's moral to do such things but Libraries have books for free and if reading it saves someone on this forum from injury or worse then its someway justified.Keith Code is richer than me anyway and would just spend the money on drugs or give it to L.Ron Hubbard.

[Weaver]

When I first started riding over the 'takas, I wasn't shifting my weight. Subsequently I started scraping my pegs. Then one evening Limbimwimtim followed me over the hill and told me that I needed to shift my weight around and that I was leaning over unnecessarily far. So I started to do this and the following week he told me that I was only shifting my arse and not my shoulders with it. So now I go into the corner with my shoulder foward.
Now that I've started shifting my weight, I haven't scrapped the pegs since then, but I feel alot more confiedent.


I pilfered this pic from one of Uncle B's posts

[discotex]

Fair enough comment.I just spent $70 on "The Soft Science of Motorcycle racing "so it is a bargain at $32.And I don't feel it's moral to do such things but Libraries have books for free and if reading it saves someone on this forum from injury or worse then its someway justified.Keith Code is richer than me anyway and would just spend the money on drugs or give it to L.Ron Hubbard.

Posting it up on a public forum for thousands to download is a bit different to just handing a copy to a mate to help them with their riding. I've personally got no real issue with that as it's not that much different to lending the book to a mate.