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VermilionX wrote: yeah, i do practice shifting my body weight into the lean even if im not leaning low just to get the feeling and get used to shifting my body weight. i have been shown and taught a little about this by a diff rider who coached me last month.

he made me do practice drills that shift my body even while going straight just to get used to the feeling of shifting my body weight. and later, he made me do it while doing figure 8s.

on the DMV circle, you counter balance. so that's why i don't like practicng it since counter balancing doesn't apply to fast speed cornering.

Yeah... I taught Lou that exercise at a skillz day, so you must have gotten it from him.

I think that part of what is happening here is that you're choosing the wrong goal and trying to achieve it too soon. You're also not in possession of the right terminology.

What you should be wanting to learn is smoothness. Without it all else is useless. (Remember Lou and Nan talking about it?) A bike is like a hyper-sensitive girlfriend. Anything sudden that you do will upset it. At speed, that can be fatal. If you don't learn to be smooth before trying to learn to corner well, you are screwed. I see it all the time at the track. It's sometimes funny there, but it's tragic on the street.

If you persist in trying to learn to corner "fast" before you learn to be smooth, then you prove to the more experienced riders that you are stupid. Their posts here have so far been motivated by concern. If you persist in this behavior, you'll just prove our point when you crash. Then we'll all get to do the vaunted TOJASO! replies to your anguished posts about your pain and totaled bike.

Why not be smart and take your time?

Oh, and counter-balancing is cool because it prevents you from dropping your bike at bike night and in the pits. That prevents people from laughing at you. Think about it.

Is your shift key broken?

Be safe,

Hawkster

hmmm... smooth. i like the way that sounds.

smooth before fast... i like that concept. i can dig that.

what are good exercises to practice smooth cornering? anybody?

thanks!

PS. nope, my shift key isn't broken. i just don't use it a lot.

Sometimes it's like explaining long division to the cat..... ...........

BuzZz wrote: Sometimes it's like explaining long division to the cat..... ...........

sorry, could you repost it or post a link since i dunno which one you are refrring to?

mate, i hate to rain on ya parrade, but your the kinda person that gives riding such bad press

why dont ya sell that peice of crap ya bought before it bites you and deprecitaes any further and go out and buy your self a decent bike. ya have no skills, no idea, and ya bought a hyper sport...my prediction is that your not for this world for very long and if ya have no idea what im talking about then that just supports it

the person who sold you that bike should be shot, dont you guys have a duty of care when ya selling things to people ??????


nothing pisses me off more than the guy who cant enter a sport at the level he is at, and grow with experiance.. ya probably done this all your short life but this time ya have chosen an interest that has horns.

thing is, that when you are a mess on the road somewhere, they will start yelling and screaming about the power of bikes out there and how unsafe and unroadworthy they are...so the rest of us that do the right thing can be fooked around in your abscence.

thanks for being the everything that politicians, road authoirites, and everyother bleeding heart thinks that bike riders are on their roads "fookin stoopid"


and im spent

shane-o wrote:mate, i hate to rain on ya parrade, but your the kinda person that gives riding such bad press

why dont ya sell that peice of "crumb" ya bought before it bites you and deprecitaes any further and go out and buy your self a decent bike. ya have no skills, no idea, and ya bought a hyper sport...my prediction is that your not for this world for very long and if ya have no idea what im talking about then that just supports it

the person who sold you that bike should be shot, dont you guys have a duty of care when ya selling things to people ??????


nothing pisses me off more than the guy who cant enter a sport at the level he is at, and grow with experiance.. ya probably done this all your short life but this time ya have chosen an interest that has horns.

thing is, that when you are a mess on the road somewhere, they will start yelling and screaming about the power of bikes out there and how unsafe and unroadworthy they are...so the rest of us that do the right thing can be fooked around in your abscence.

thanks for being the everything that politicians, road authoirites, and everyother bleeding heart thinks that bike riders are on their roads "fookin stoopid"

and im spent

thanks for your opinion.

however, from what i experienced from starting on a SBK... the bike's only as powerful as you let it be.

in other words, it's just throttle control.

hell, i could go 180mph on the freeway early morning or late night but i choose not to even though i have the means to do it.

it's just about how responsible you are.

What exactly is a SBK?

I thought you rode a GSX-r?

Sevulturus wrote:What exactly is a SBK?

I thought you rode a GSX-r?

GSX-R 1000 SBK K6treme?

GSX-R1000 ANIME, LOW LEAN, POWER RANGER SBK K6tremem?

BuzZz wrote: Sometimes it's like explaining long division to the cat..... ...........

Nope, I can explain long division to the Cat.

Did not I talk about smoothness???