....out over the Coromandel, with my 2 flatmates, one owns a Yamaha R6 and the other owns a Suzuki Bandit 1200. I haven't been riding long and have only just started learning to lean the bike over around corners. I'd never tried leaning right off the bike as I wasn't sure I was ready.
The start of the ride didn't go well as I was feeling a bit rusty and nearly went straight into the side of a bridge. My flatmates are quite experienced and were correcting me on heaps of different things concerning my riding. Then, one of them told me I should start looking at leaning off the bike for cornering so I thought I'd give it a try.
It's like that was the missing piece of the puzzle and all of a sudden I felt I was able to take corners at twice the speed I could before. My confidence just went through the roof all of a sudden and my mate on the R6 was shocked to see me keeping up with him throughout the twisties on the coromandel. When we pulled over for a break they came over to make sure it was still me riding the bike and not someone else as they couldn't understand how I had improved so much in such a short time!
It just seemed to change everything, I felt that I was able to keep a much better racing line and felt far more in control of the corners when I was leaning right off the bike and my knee was getting closer to the ground. My chicken strips have nearly gone! My legs were pretty sore from sitting up off the seat all the time but that's cool.
Anyway just a little story I thought I'd share. Hope you guys are all doing well and good riding!
Cheers.
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