Crappy cornering technique

[Big Dave]

Thats my signature move.

May mate trip had an ultra and the pools of sparks that unit used to leave for the t'bird to ride through. bewdifulllll

[Big Dave]

Honesty is a wonderful thing,Fear not grasshopper,thankfully i remember posts from the wise and have saved many a magazine article,simply move your left leg 0.5 cm on the left peg eat 3 hard boiled eggs before even looking at your motorcycle and the most important rule of all,have the correct bulb in your tailight,do these simple things and a motorcycle legend you will be.

You forgot ego.

[98tls]

You forgot ego.

One day into being another year older and already something else ive forgotten.

[Cr1MiNaL]

I once followed Boomer around a corner, we were going reasonably quickly then he leans over and sticks his leg perpendicular to the bike (left leg out mid apex in the right hand corner), I almost fell off my bike, not from the speed, I was laughing my arse off! Plus the boy really thinks he can wheelie hahahaaaa ahah aaa

[icekiwi]

I suppose I need to go away and invent a KB Wave now.

Fuck a KB Wave...
I've Been away a couple of months have i missed something???

[Big Dave]

Fuck a KB Wave...
I've Been away a couple of months have i missed something???

It was decided to stand up, get the tackle out and helicopter.

[dipshit]

watched him try to lean through the corner but he was leaning OUT of the corner, not into it....sort of pushing the bike down towards the road but leaning the other way......well he totally lost it, couldn't get round, ended up hitting the anchors, crossing, without control, into the left hand lane

Apparently he wasn't out of control at all. This is the way "real men" on Harleys ride all the time.

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

Low speed corning (anything below 45-50kph) you corner the way your brain naturally thinks it should by turning the bars the way you wish to go... If you counter steer at this speed you will probably drop your bike if you don't counter lean and shift your weight, and can be a bit difficult...

Anything above 50kph when you think you are just leaning the bike into the corner your bike is naturally counter steering its the laws of physics at work and is simply the way it works... it may not look or feel like it, you may not notice it but its already happening... All you are doing is enhancing what is already happening...

If you wish to go left push forward on your left bar the bike drops further into the corner... if you wish to go right push forward on your right bar... go with the flow of the bike...

Get it wrong during a corner you have taken to hot try to steer normally round a corner, you will simply make matters worse... which I reckon has happened to the harley rider in that sequence... take a close look at the front wheel just as he start to scrape

[98tls]

Get it wrong during a corner you have taken to hot, you will simply make it worse... which I reckon has happened to the harley rider in that sequence... take a close look at the front wheel just as he start to scrape

Sorry mate i think it went wrong roughly 50 years before those pics were taken.

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

Sorry mate i think it went wrong roughly 50 years before those pics were taken.

I'll give you that

[Big Dave]

take a close look at the front wheel just as he start to scrape

What happens with most of the tankers is the frame digs in just in front of the swing arm and it lifts/levers the back wheel off the ground - or enough for it to step out badly.

The natural reaction is to button off - it's a frightful sound - sometimes that means all over rover for the unwary - even with two hands on the bars.

[dipshit]

Sorry mate i think it went wrong roughly 50 years before those pics were taken.

Me too. The front wheel could be washing out because the bike is scraping and unloading the tyres so much.

[reofix]

my 5 cents worth... i spend a lot of time going reasonably quick on b roads... staying up and over the bike and countersteering hugely increases your view of the way ahead ... it may not be motogp ...but id rather see where im going than be hung down on the inside just so i can pretend i'm rossi...

[98tls]

What happens with most of the tankers is the frame digs in just in front of the swing arm and it lifts/levers the back wheel off the ground - or enough for it to step out badly.

The natural reaction is to button off - it's a frightful sound - sometimes that means all over rover for the unwary - even with two hands on the bars.

No doubt but methinks the beginning of the end for this guy was sighting a camera,visions of a small spot in Easyrider next to hopefully the "bad ass of the week pic" took him far from the job at hand,at least he avoided "you will go the way your looking theory" and he had the decency to tell the world to fuck off with a showing of "Johnny Reb".

[Big Dave]

No doubt but methinks the beginning of the end for this guy was sighting a camera,visions of a small spot in Easyrider next to hopefully the "bad ass of the week pic" took him far from the job at hand,at least he avoided "you will go the way your looking theory" and he had the decency to tell the world to fuck off with a showing of "Johnny Reb".

Viva le reb!