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#21 Post by dr_bar » Sun Jun 18, 2006 3:48 pm

I'm not a sportbike rider so I'll leave the critique to those that are, but one small suggestion for you when you next ride that canyon...

Taking it easy, go one way to check the road conditions, ie: sand gravel on the road, condition of pavement, tar snakes etc. Then turn that 750 around and have at her...

Once your sure of the conditions, you can spend more time on the mechanics of the ride while enjoying it as well.
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#22 Post by VermilionX » Sun Jun 18, 2006 3:55 pm

dr_bar wrote:I'm not a sportbike rider so I'll leave the critique to those that are, but one small suggestion for you when you next ride that canyon...

Taking it easy, go one way to check the road conditions, ie: sand gravel on the road, condition of pavement, tar snakes etc. Then turn that 750 around and have at her...

Once your sure of the conditions, you can spend more time on the mechanics of the ride while enjoying it as well.
thought about that. but this one is a long stretch of a twisty. meaning it might not be there before but it can change when i go the opposite way.

the rock slide warning signs are kinda scary though. :laughing:
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#23 Post by jmillheiser » Sun Jun 18, 2006 6:43 pm

you also want to keep an eye out for gravel in areas next to cliffs, especially if there is evidence of recent rockfall.
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#24 Post by Mintbread » Sun Jun 18, 2006 8:31 pm

Well, there is a waste of a perfectly good GSX-R750. Did you buy it so you could quote the numbers and pin it in a straight line?
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#25 Post by Skier » Sun Jun 18, 2006 9:18 pm

Your lane position upon turn entry is painful at best. Read and apply Hough's Proficient Motorcycling or your precious Kanji symbols will be scrubbed off quickly by the road.
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#26 Post by Sev » Sun Jun 18, 2006 9:22 pm

I'd like to know why you keep sticking your knees out.
Of course I'm generalizing from a single example here, but everyone does that. At least I do.

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#27 Post by Apitoxin » Sun Jun 18, 2006 11:48 pm

I noticed alot of your turning being flawed is due to your lower speeds coming into the first half of the turn. The lower speed giving you more time to move across the lane.

I could be completely wrong. o_o..

But nice twisties and i love the bike.
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#28 Post by BigChickenStrips » Mon Jun 19, 2006 12:38 am

ZooTech wrote:Just a suggestion: Dub over the video with a cool music track or at least ask the idiot with the camera to stay behind the freakin' windshield. I can't listen to 10 minutes of hurricane force winds.
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#29 Post by DivideOverflow » Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:03 am

Since that was your first time on the road, I'd say that wasn't bad.

I assume you are practicing for "racing style". Personally, when I ride with people I hate being close together. We all keep our distance and do our own thing in the twisties/corners. I usually give about 5-10 car lengths before entering a turn when riding with friends... then again, we prefer more of the "racing style" too, where you use the whole lane.

I would echo some of the others and say work on your lines. They seemed inconsistant. I'm not talking about the leaning in the corners, especially since the road is new to you, and those corners were blind. You just need to work on your "attack vector" when you take a corner ;)

I'd watch the video of yourself, then watch videos of other people (both bad and good, whatever you can find) and compare what you are doing and what other people are doing. If it is a bad rider, try to point out why, and make a note not to make those mistakes. If it is a good rider, see what they are doing that you aren't (or what they aren't doing that you are).

Just keep practicing.

Also, check out "Twist of the Wrist : The Motorcycle Roadracers Handbook", and "A Twist of the Wrist 2: The Basics of High-Performance Motorcycle Riding" by Keith Code. I think they are pretty good books.
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#30 Post by VermilionX » Mon Jun 19, 2006 3:26 am

thanks for the input guys.

i'll practice more. :D

problem is, i don't want to go there alone since there is no celphone service so im gonna need somebody else in case something bad happens.

and yeah, i've watched it many times.

when i take turns i slide half my butt of the seat... but it seems like i should hang off the bike more.

and i'll work on taking a more aggrressive lean angle when entering turns and try to build confidence.

i'll also work on my outside-inside-outside lines. from the people that i know, they don't use a staggered formation on twisties.
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