You add how much to recommended corner speeds?

[pyrocam]

Use vanishing point when riding . So until foot starts hitting the road I just ride at my own speed / Take signs as an lean angle LOL
SENSEI

HAHA thats awesome. mind if I use that in a sig?

[TwoSeven]

I'm in the swap it for Mph brigade as well.

There are a couple round here you have to watch for. 55kph usually means its a corkscrew corner and 25kph usually means its a hairpin.

[NC]

15kms @ 15kms

all others usally twice the speed they recomend on a nice day.

[ManDownUnder]

You go round faster and faster and faster till you crash... then slow down a bit!

A bit like doing up cylinder head bolt - up till they break then back 1/3 of a turn!

ok seriously... I do it by intuition most of the time. Weather, visibility, road surface, traffic all come into it and formula being followed would likely just get me killed... I have a preference for watching the road (not the speedo) as I go round a corner.

I guess I must be old fashioned that way
MDU

[Wolf]

Depends on the corner.

Most 55Km/h corners I take at 70-80 if the road is dry and in good condition (not rutted or gravel-strewn) The 45km/h at the Narrows Bridge I enter at 60 and leave at 70 (accelerate out of corners) under ideal conditions. Unmarked (theoretically 100km/h) corner on Ringer Road at 80km/h - think it should be labelled 50km/h because it's bloody dangerous. Anything 75km/h and above I usually take at 100km/h unless the road or traffic conditions suggest otherwise.

I'm not big on scraping my pegs and going hard out around corners - I ride to relax and I generally get all the brown-trouser moments I need owing to the bone-headed tactics of other road users without having to give myself any.

If I don't know the road I work by the look of the land and the road and decide whether to take it at the posted speed or no more than 20km/h higher.

I think the posted speed is supposed to be the "maximum safe speed when wet" so you can generally take them a lot faster when dry.

In the wet I tend to stick to the posted speed.

[magnum]

normally double,more if i know the corner

[scroter]

same here, think of a number and double it. im sure its possible to do 190 round a 95 but ive never tryed it and i aint gonna either

[slob]

I can not see my Speedo so seldom use it.

Same here (got a '96 GSX-R750T). I reckon it's a safety feature so you concentrate on the road instead!

[Rainbow Wizard]

I usually do the MPH conversion thing unless I know the road, then I double it.

Man that's a 70k corner at 2 times 112k!!! 70 into 224 goes 3.2 times but at that speed I reckon you'd only do it once!

[Rainbow Wizard]

I'm so slow on the windy stuff.

Skunk by name but not by nature?

[Gixxer 4 ever]

Same here (got a '96 GSX-R750T). I reckon it's a safety feature so you concentrate on the road instead!

So Suzuki is looking after us. See I knew there was a reason. So you are over 5 foot tall as well Still one hell of a nice bike. In fact the saying goes " once you have ridden one you are spoilt for all others" Could well be true. I only look at the Gixxers when window shopping

[Skunk]

Skunk by name but not by nature?

Yeah, Skunk - stink rider
"I don't ride like stink, my riding just stinks."

[Rainbow Wizard]

Recommended speed x 2 and minus 20k when I want it easy.... or just double when going hard... but if its like a 45k or lesser speed corner I slow right down...

and

I generally double it and sometimes triple it.... I use the signs as a gauge of what kind of corner is coming up....

15,25,35 = Hairpin

45,55,65 = Sweeper (decreasing or increasing radius judged whilst riding)

75kmh + = Kink usually taken at balls out...

Then what works for me plus most others, where if your speedo reads mph then take 'em easy at the mph instead of the kph. That's around 60% as a minimum for all except the hairpins maybe.

Clearly adding on 75% (or half plus half of that half) is not really pushing it except for maybe the novices or if it's wet. And adepts can get by at double or even more. And then there's the issue of how far round the corner you can see along with how much room you need to stop at that speed, and that includes how many metres lost whilst you stand that baby up?

But what we gotta remember is: faster means less room for errors, and some of them could be someone or something else's (like that duck for instance, or a possum, or some cager, or a pothole). I reckon once you start getting close to adding 100% you could be considered a menace on the road. Fine on the track mate, but out there it just scares the hell outa me at times.

[onearmedbandit]

Same here (got a '96 GSX-R750T). I reckon it's a safety feature so you concentrate on the road instead!

Mine (97) must have an aftermarket blade (looks std.) as I'm either looking through the blade to clearly see the entire instrumement assembly, or if I'm tucked down looking straight at 'em (well obviously looking at the road, you know what I mean). I'm only like 172cm tall (not often I can use that word in any sentence involving myself!) so the screen must be different.

[Two Smoker]

But what we gotta remember is: faster means less room for errors, and some of them could be someone or something else's (like that duck for instance, or a possum, or some cager, or a pothole). I reckon once you start getting close to adding 100% you could be considered a menace on the road. Fine on the track mate, but out there it just scares the hell outa me at times.

Yep, but some corners if i am tripiling may only be at 70-80% of my riding ability or at a push 90%... riding at 100% or even 90% is just asking for trouble...

MR and i generally ride together at 80% going hard through the twisties... But we know what we can do from riding on the track, hence our 80% may look like 110% to others...