North Auckland Street Skills - NASS

**Beth Stewart** · 7th October 2010, 08:01

Ha ha enjoying your banter! Had to do the pony club thing last night as it was the first one for the season. Can't wait to get together with you guys again. Maybe next week.

**R-Soul** · 7th October 2010, 10:00

Originally Posted by zealchick

keeping my head up, looking forward and around the corners....as apposed to watching the road and inching around the corners lol
and trying to be a bit more consistent with my lines :-) had a really good ride

Nice!
10 char

**Sharry** · 7th October 2010, 21:05

Originally Posted by imw-hornet

Yea , looking good for tonight , let hope that there will be a good turn out again , i will also be bringing someone tonight

LOL, dude you'r always looking good

You do ride a Honda after all

And that was a cool little someone that you brought with you

**Clean_up** · 8th October 2010, 12:36

Originally Posted by Clean_up

Hey everyone, just got back from a really nice ride out to Piha, and had coffee at the Piha Cafe....really nice atmosphere

. Was thinking maybe we could get a few of us together who could be keen for a ride out there on Saturday morning for brunch then a cruise back

? what do people think? Weather permitting

of course, Scenic drive can be a bit perilous at the best of times

.

Weather is looking promising.....come on people...this will be an awesome ride, and the cafe is really good, nice NICE food

not at all

so lets go....
meet up at shell westgate at 9, leaving at 9:30.

**Devil** · 8th October 2010, 13:03

One day i'll bother to introduce myself... one day.

Until then i'm the guy that turns up randomly every few months on the rather large BMW GS Adventure.

**R-Soul** · 11th October 2010, 12:15

I was thwarted by grumpy wife (who had little sleep teh night before with new R- jnr).

aaaaah welll next time...

**p.dath** · 11th October 2010, 12:28

Before I forget about it; I loved ridge road last week - but I made an error on one corner that I thought I would share with everyone, as new riders in particular may not have thought about it.

On one of the right hand turns I had leaned over enough that part of my body was protruding into the other lane. My bike was always on the left hand side of the road.

The danger was that if a car had come around the corner I could have been cleaned up.

It is not sufficient to have your bike on the correct side of the road - you have to have the entire package, including the rider, on the correct side of the road.

**rickstv** · 11th October 2010, 12:51

Originally Posted by p.dath

Before I forget about it; I loved ridge road last week - but I made an error on one corner that I thought I would share with everyone, as new riders in particular may not have thought about it.

On one of the right hand turns I had leaned over enough that part of my body was protruding into the other lane. My bike was always on the left hand side of the road.

The danger was that if a car had come around the corner I could have been cleaned up.

It is not sufficient to have your bike on the correct side of the road - you have to have the entire package, including the rider, on the correct side of the road.

You weren't the only one. I was watching other riders on Ridge road that night too and their heads were over the center line on right handers too.

We should bring this up on Wednesday night.

Rick.

**TOTO** · 13th October 2010, 12:28

should be a good day for it today.

**Ntoxcated** · 13th October 2010, 12:50

Originally Posted by TOTO

should be a good day for it today.

To practice wet weather riding? It's not exactly persisting down here in Albany, but quite wet nonetheless

**BoristheBiter** · 13th October 2010, 12:58

Originally Posted by Ntoxcated

To practice wet weather riding? It's not exactly persisting down here in Albany, but quite wet nonetheless

It is persisting down here in Onehunga.

**p.dath** · 13th October 2010, 13:52

I was thinking about something we could try doing on the ride before the car park session.

For more experienced riders, the NASS ride can be rather easy and so there isn't much need to bother with cornering lines. I find a good exercise to do is to pick two points on a corner, where you are going to start the corner from, and the apex point of the corner your tyre will touch.
Then you start applying cornering lines again, which is great for new riders to copy.

Here is an exercise for new riders. Experienced riders get used to looking at corners and adapting without even thinking about it. You need to develop these same techniques, so tonight as you approach every corner see if you can identify any of the below attributes of a corner. Don't worry about responding just yet - just see if you can start identifying what you are seeing.

Is the corner rising (aka up hill), falling, or flat?
Does the corner have negative or positive camber (or even flat)?
Does the corner have a constant radius, gets tighter, or does it open up?
Is there anything on the surface of the corner? e,g. Gravel on the outside, a pot hole, a shiny patch of seal, etc.

The trick to cornering is planning what you are going to do. And before you can effectively plan a corner you have to be able to "read it".

**p.dath** · 14th October 2010, 10:46

Last night someone was talking about a competition run by TelstraClear to win a motorcycle. Daily prizes. Something like that.

Kind find it. Did I remember the details correctly?

**BoristheBiter** · 14th October 2010, 11:14

Originally Posted by p.dath

Last night someone was talking about a competition run by TelstraClear to win a motorcycle. Daily prizes. Something like that.

Kind find it. Did I remember the details correctly?

http://www.jointhejourney.co.nz/mark.cfm

Is that the one??