I've been told to be a better (faster) rider I have to ride smooth.
How do you ride smooth? I Don't quite understand it.
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I've been told to be a better (faster) rider I have to ride smooth.
How do you ride smooth? I Don't quite understand it.
Then I could get a Kb Tshirt, move to Timaru and become a full time crossdressing faggot
I am therefore I do
2 beers and a hooter help...
The Heart is the drum keeping time for everyone....
Forum whore
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).
Originally Posted by skidmark
The instructions are simple...
Ixion's suggestion is good, but only touches on one part of smooth...
Correct gear selection for what is happening right now/ is about to happen. Gear changes that are concise and at the right time. Throttle control that doesn't threaten to fling you off the back. No sudden movements within your lane. Correct position for corner entry/exit.
Smooth is a package deal that utilises more parts than effective countersteering does. Which is another part of smooth.
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
Forum whore
That sort of comes with the "do it faster" bit. Fast ragged riders tend to rely on blasting the throttle and then hauling in the brakes. When you are forbidden to brake, but still have to go quickly, you are forced to find those other things.
Riding a little bike helps a LOT too. When you don't have any power to hide your mistakes you are forced to get things right, so as not to lose that precious momentum.
Hardcore Biker
+ ride each corner with the next in mind, so that you're set up for the smoovest line on every bend.
The instructions are simple...
Applies to any size bike.....over-indulge here, and you have to over-compensate there.
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
Hardcore Biker
Light, low powered bikes tend to be pretty forgiving too
Large Falcon Collider
Ride with one hand (right obv) and no brakes is what uncle_b used to teach. Be f**king careful though.
"If life gives you a shit sandwich..." someone please complete this expression
Forum whore
Definitely,the best advice to get smooth and fast is to get a small bike,something under powered.Loosing momentum is a big sin on a small bike,you have to keep speed up at all times.So you use the brakes less,keep entry and corners speeds up,don't back off the throttle unnecessarily,and keep the throttle open as much as possible.Transfer this to a bigger bike and you won't be lunging at throttle and brakes,picking the bike up and putting it back down in corners.No coincidence that the best training ground for MotoGP is the 125 class.Kenny Roberts used to teach superbike riders by making them race each other on mini bikes on dirt tracks - that taught them corner speed was everything and never to back off.
CB125's are pretty cheap.
Shafty Bugger
yeah
I agree with the "no brake" idea
On a couple of group rides, I have had the pleasure of being behind mid pace riders. Because of this, I was riding the road at a speed a lot slower than I know I was able to so
Untill the end of those rides I sat with these riders, I did not use the brake unless it was unavoidable,
Using the gears and feathering the throttle, plannning ahead for corners meant that I had to keep a flow that was smooth to keep my position with the other riders around me
Really good practice for times I ride with the faster pace guys, as the lesson of smoothness reduced greatly the physical stress of going fast and the mechanical wear of hard braking/hard accelleration.Plus the planning of lines through corners fast is becoming better, less butt clenching theses days
In all good skills learnt....again by reading ideas from here and putting them into practice
To be old and wise, first you must be young and stupid.
Large Falcon Collider
I would like to think that I'm a smooth rider, and I think alot of that has to do with thinking a lot more about my corner speed, and my lines than I do about the straight bits between the corners.
"If life gives you a shit sandwich..." someone please complete this expression
Hardcore Biker
I thought you stopped riding as it was too dangerous..............
Bring back Buell
ya gotta have USD forks of course..
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The instructions are simple...
...but twin discs are not necessary - as you won't be using 'em.
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
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