Your nemesis corner?

[Grub]

Does gripping with your thighs help? I find it does.

Oh yes it does, but we're talking about riding bikes right now.

[Grub]

Better to shift your shoulders and upper body towards the inside of the corner (kissing the mirror). If you shift your bum sideways, then you must shift your shoulders and upper body more than you've shifted your bum. You could look upon this as being the part of your bike/body that is leaned over the furtherest is the pivot point and the pivot point is most effective at the top...your tyres being at the bottom.

GASP!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You're talking about Bum Steering ... if you weren't so fuggly I'd kiss you.

[MSTRS:Me]

GASP!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You're talking about Bum Steering ... if you weren't so fuggly I'd kiss you.

:slap:Oh no you don't. There is no such thing. I thought we'd managed to dispel that ugly myth. I will admit that weight transference has an important role in how well/fast one can corner on a bike, but I'll growl at you (again) if you try to suggest it is a valid steering method all by itself.

[MSTRS:Me]

Back to the thread purpose...corners that give one the shits.
Perhaps we could have suggestions on how to take particular corners that will be known to many, yet upset some. That way, we may remember these mongrels and how to deal with if/when we ride them sometime?

[quallman1234]

The RG can be a hell of a lot quicker than bigger bikes on corners. It'll blitz anything on Blue Mountains hill road.

Its true you know!, i lapped everyone in medium / hard at a recent taupo day, except for a motard and a busa.

There's only really one for me, thats on piecock going up the hill heading towards pram, looks like a 90 degree left hander coming up to it, i hate it ive been wide a couple of times there.
Also that patch left hairpin is a pain in the arse but you just slow down for it.
Oh and the last actual corner on the waniu coast road, off camber and tight usually with peebles floating around.

The last two don't really bother me because i just slow down, but you enter the first one i mentioned quite quickly and realise its a bit more of a corner!

[Toaster]

No idea of the name of my nemesis corner, but it was a back road in the Waikato with a suicidal goat on it.

[Mom]

There is a left hand, uphill corner, heading towards Mangawhai from SH1, posted 45, the turnoff from it is Te Arai. I used to fight to get around that corner everytime. Too high a gear and you are over the centre line in a flash as it turns in a bit on itself, too low and you feel you are about to be spat off over the bars. I believe it is a corner that Zed managed to come to grief on a few years ago. He used to refer to it as Zeds corner.

I remember the first time I managed to get round there in the right gear, with the right amount of engine speed and the wonderful countersteer happening just how it needed to! Fantastic feeling. It is a corner that I always give extra thought to, and still get the same buzz now as I get round it.

[The Stranger:Me]

The one that gets me is on Peak road an easy 65kph up hill right hander.
Only thing "wrong" with it is limited visibility, but no more so than hundreds of others. Buggered if I know why it gives me the willies? It should be a fast corner - and it is for most people.

[bistard]

Alright we probably all have that one corner that we just don't like.

You might have crashed on this corner or had a scary moment. You might have never felt like you've got it right or worse still you've been carved up by an old geezer on a GN250 with a Pro helmet and yellow PVC wet weather gear

Where ever it may be (road, track, dirt) tell us of your nemesis corner and tell us why you don't like it, you never know someone might have had the same experience and may be able to help you out.

Mine doesn't exsist anymore, the old hairpin at Centennial Park Taupo


I think I got this corner right twice on the whole three seasons I raced there and I definately crashed there three times, all for the same reason. It was just so enticing to get on the gas, hard, early to beat the racer next to you to the right hander. This always ended in scuffed leathers and a bent gear lever and on one occasion a stalled YZ426F that didn't start for the remainder of the race


So share your experience and tell us all what is you nemesis corner!

Sully,that old guy in the yellow PVC & PRO helmet,was actually riding a Honda Spada 250 & it was Murray McGloughlin,you fool!!
By the way,I got "Gripped " a few weeks ago,I wonder how that happend


EXPECT IT WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT



Bwahahaha

[Sully60]

Sully,that old guy in the yellow PVC & PRO helmet,was actually riding a Honda Spada 250 & it was Murray McGloughlin,you fool!!

And it was the most boring carve up of all time

By the way,I got "Gripped " a few weeks ago,I wonder how that happend

I deny having knowledge of this particular event, but I do know where you live

[bistard]

And it was the most boring carve up of all time




I deny having knowledge of this particular event, but I do know where you live

Very good retort my friend!!

By the way I hear he has purchased a Hornet 900

[Mom]

By the way,I got "Gripped " a few weeks ago,I wonder how that happend
EXPECT IT WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT
Bwahahaha

Getting "gripped" sounds dangerous, hope it never happens to me .

[steved]

The first righthander on the series of downhill twisties heading into Kawakawa bay... Downhill off-camber and tightening mid corner. Haven't binned, it just seems to always catch me slightly too fast.

Me too. This was my first bin corner going down-hill. Always watchful going around this one now. They have made it smoother which helps though.

[Mom]

The one that gets me is on Peak road an easy 65kph up hill right hander.
Only thing "wrong" with it is limited visibility, but no more so than hundreds of others. Buggered if I know why it gives me the willies? It should be a fast corner - and it is for most people.

Your limited visbility comment interests me. There is a slight curve, cant really be called a corner on Waitietie Road that you should never have to slow for. Problem is it is on the crest of a hill and you lose sight of the road totally on approach. Even knowing the road you cant help but hesitate as you cant "see" where it goes, even though you know where it goes.

[The Stranger:Me]

Your limited visbility comment interests me. There is a slight curve, cant really be called a corner on Waitietie Road that you should never have to slow for. Problem is it is on the crest of a hill and you lose sight of the road totally on approach. Even knowing the road you cant help but hesitate as you cant "see" where it goes, even though you know where it goes.

To borrow from Littleman - No one expects a shipping container just around the corner or over the brow - but every so often there is.
That said, cresting corners are wicked. Right hander on Clive rd going from Mountain rd to Normanby rd in Mt Eden is one of my favourites. From the other direction it's great too as the whole bike will pick up and move sideways on you mid corner as you crest whilst leant over. We need more corners like this!