Well, thanks for indulging me, oh well. Guess I'll just keep practicing those right turns.Gummiente wrote:Bunk. Just tried it - freaked out the cats and GOD knows what that poor lady thought when she looked in the living room window as she walked by - but nope, your theory doesn't work with me. I slide left, but my comfy corner is right.
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Yeah, but I'm not exactly your "normal" test subject anyway, so don't trash the research data just yet.bandit600 wrote:Well, thanks for indulging me, oh well. Guess I'll just keep practicing those right turns.
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In the US & Canada, the right hand curves are always tighter as it is the inner curve. In countries like England and Japan, the opposite would be true.
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Good point, I never thought about that...HYPERR wrote:In the US & Canada, the right hand curves are always tighter as it is the inner curve. In countries like England and Japan, the opposite would be true.
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More comfortable going to the right, but then tire wear in the UK is usually heavier on the right than the left due to all of the roundabouts...
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Why would that be Kal, here we just keep going straight, it's why GS's are so popular
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You've been away for too long Paul, you've fogotten how much fun the roads here can be
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All I ever see is JC and the hamster moaning about having to go to Europe to find a good road. I just have to go out my back door
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That's because they want to do 200mph everywhere, whereas the twisties can be suitably terrifying at 30 or 40mph...
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i prefer(red) going left. I think that in some ways this is b/c even as only a year or so new rider - my first riding at the BRC was 80% left turns. I also think that the throttle has something to do with it - the angle on the throttle wrist feels a bit different as the hand dips into the lean... or at least it felt that way to me.
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