Ridin' smoove

[Motu]

Yes,not changing gear would do it on a bigger bike.I used to like doing Riddell Rd in Auckland in 3rd gear on the Commando,the bike had the grunt to pull that low in the tight corners.Makes you keep your corner speed high,makes you easy on the throttle.

[HDTboy]

I've found the most fun way to ride smoove, is to get your missus to wax her beave, then lay her down and give her a full body massage with baby oil.

Smoothe riding all night long

[R6_kid:Me]

ride like rossi - learn the [road]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O9VT1ig6-o

[MSTRS:Me]

You can't do smooth I find if you get buggered up by something.

Perhaps you could try a different lube

[The Pastor]

im going to hit the 16 on sat, maybe do it 4 or 5 times. I'll try out all the tips and advice.

re: only using one gear. Thats just not going to work on my bike..... (pod filters make it real peaky) but i'll still give it ago.

[jcupit69]

Tie a piece of thread around your brake lever in such a way that if you apply the brakes you break the thread.

Now go out on your favourite twisty road,a nd ride.

If you break that thread you have to go back to the beginning and start again.

Do it until you can get to the other end with the thread unbroken . Now do it faster.

When you can do it as fast as you can do it with the brakes, that's smooth

(This is a VERY good practise lesson for learners, by the way).

hmmm, thats a damn good idea, i might have to try that for shits and giggles one day might be interesting with my bugger all engine brake, but defo a good tip +1 for that

[enigma51]

No such thing as riding smoove

[The Pastor]

track day is cancelled. :'(

[enigma51]

track day is cancelled. :'(

see what happens when you wanna be smoove

[discotex]

track day is cancelled. :'(

MotoTT and Kiwi Trackdays both do days down at Taupo. In fact one of them is doing a $500 training day soon - can't remember which tho. If you want to ride fast that'd be the day to go to.

[xwhatsit]

I post this because Jackie S is the king of smooth.

Lies! Go and watch some footage of Jim Clark at the 'Ring.

I'm no fantastic corner-carver, in fact it takes me a few hundred kilometres to get warmed up and approaching the `groove', and when I'm there I'm still somewhat on edge, but I think I'm learning a little about smoove.

Sitting behind a dude on a XJ750 (I think) up north; approach a corner, front end dives, apex late then flops in and zooms off again. Whereas (by necessity -- see above about gutless small bikes) I was rowing the thing around the corners with the gear lever, and riding in a much more constant, `average speed' kind of manner. Conservation of momentum. It's such an effort to build up speed, you don't want to chuck it away by grabbing the brakes or letting go of the throttle. When I'm on motorways I change lanes frequently to avoid the same problem

[jcupit69]

Was up on the tukas 2day n gave a lil thought to this forum and had an idea...if you ever watch max biaggi racing you'll notice he constantly gets quicker throughout the race.

His throttle control is rediculously smooth just feeding in the power, and his lap times get lower n lower. I found the same thing today....i did the tukas bout 6 times just over and back and found that i was getting much smoother by just relaxing and getting into the frame of mind and focus of riding.

Also found, i usually ride while listening to music to music (don't no if others do???) as i find i cant hear anything over my rattely 2stroke and the wind anyway. i did a pass 2day without the music and i was so much less fluid it was shocking!!! So safe to say that i put the tunes back on and went for afew more goes

[DingoZ]

Ride with one hand and no brakes? sounds crazy enough to work.

On one of the Wednesday Night rides down here. Someone was mentioning that Uncle B advocated the "Smooth" way of riding. Ie - throttle control v's brakes..

I have made a conscious effort to try this method since then, and I am finding things are indeed way smoother. It's Making me focus on corner set up, using throttle control. And Applying the throttle in a more controlled way.

And I found this helped the other day when I got caught out in the torrential rain, slippery and such like on the way home. Smooth throttle inputs gave me more confidence than before....

[skidMark]

ya gotta have USD forks of course..

Obviously!

[skidMark]

do the opposite of me.

apparently i'm the most unsmooth rider there is....

yet after my first ever trackday i'm running a winning streetstock laptime around taupo full.

but i gotta work on my smoothness **rolls eyes**