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Re: What's your good side
Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 5:06 am
by bandit600
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.
Well, thanks for indulging me, oh well. Guess I'll just keep practicing those right turns.
Re: What's your good side
Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 11:46 am
by Gummiente
bandit600 wrote:Well, thanks for indulging me, oh well. Guess I'll just keep practicing those right turns.
Yeah, but I'm not exactly your "normal" test subject anyway, so don't trash the research data just yet.
Re: What's your good side
Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 2:16 pm
by HYPERR
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.
Re: What's your good side
Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 2:51 pm
by bandit600
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.
Good point, I never thought about that...
Re: What's your good side
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 10:28 pm
by Kal
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...
Re: What's your good side
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 12:54 am
by sapaul
Why would that be Kal, here we just keep going straight, it's why GS's are so popular
Re: What's your good side
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 1:31 am
by Kal
You've been away for too long Paul, you've fogotten how much fun the roads here can be
Re: What's your good side
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 4:10 am
by sapaul
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
most bikers here are lawless too
no plates
no ATGATT
get pissed at day jols and then ride home
Re: What's your good side
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 5:17 am
by Kal
That's because they want to do 200mph everywhere, whereas the twisties can be suitably terrifying at 30 or 40mph...
Re: What's your good side
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:19 am
by zeligman
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.
damn i miss riding....
