There's some excellent stuff in both of those vids. This lot below is aimed mainly at high performance riding/racing. But once you get the ideas they transfer back to road riding, just more subtly rather than exaggerated.
Arms: Too much weight on the arms is bad. Everybody knows it but most people still do it. So when braking, pushing on the pegs and putting your weight through the petrol tank is the go. As the 1st guy in the second vid said, if you're riding properly your legs are farked after a lap (a newb that is) and you can barely walk when you get off.
Upper body: In a corner your upper body has a hell of a lot of influence over how fast you can get around a corner. Watch any onboard camera shots of MotoGP riders etc. They gradually move their upper body further and further off the bike as they get into a corner. Once they apex they start moving back in.
Hips: One of the most common mistakes people make is to move their hips too far out to the side. This is bad because the outside leg pulls your hips around so they're facing the wrong way. This makes you body twist and that puts your weight over the bike instead of inside the bikes line. Another common mistake is to let your hips droop when you're off the side. By that I mean the inside hip is below the seat. This again makes your spine twist, but in a different direction and makes people counter lean. So pushing up on the inside foot peg so that the hips are level with the seat stops this and gives you a hell of a lot more control.
Legs: Inside leg goes out and the outside leg is locked into the tank. Best way to lock your leg into the tank is point your toes downward. This locks that leg into the tank and helps take weight off your arms when you're braking and stops you from falling off the back of the bike when you're accelerating. Make sure you're not resting on the seat with the back of your leg. You should be touching the seat but not putting weight through it.
Feet: up on the ball of your inside foot on the peg (which is turned outwards so your knee is out) and the outside foot has the peg under the middle of the foot. If your outside foot is up on the ball of your foot you can't use the peg as effectively when accelerating.
Head: Always on the inside of the line of the bike. Always.
So basically, your knee is out nice and wide, your hips are in close to the bike, and your upper body is gradually moving further and further out, as is your head (which is inside the line of the bike even before you start turning). Anything that makes your spine twist is bad.
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Originally Posted by Maki
The more I ride the better I get. But watching videos like this I get better faster. Thanks for posting it.
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