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Re: Cornering Correctly in Comfort and lots of other Crud
- Subject: Re: Cornering Correctly in Comfort and lots of other Crud
- From: TXToday@xxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 16:41:41 EDT
Marc, The upper body weight should be carried primarily by the legs when
riding. This will significantly reduce the weight on your wrists and
therefore improve comfort. It will be difficult to get used to at first,
though. In addition, it aids in the stability of the bike in corners.
You should be able to ride and corner with very light pressure on the bars.
As someone pointed out, Reg Pridmore encourages this and I can say that Kieth
Code does as well. In fact, Code has an excercise where when in full lean he
wants you to wiggle your arms like a chicken. Countersteering (pushing on
the bar for the direction you want to go; push left, go left) is really the
only way to effectively flick a motorcycle. Weighting pegs, knee dragging,
and hanging off all have various degrees of importance in racing, but
essentially they primarily aid in altering the center of graviety of the bike
and rider to enable faster cornering with less lean, but the actual turning
is done by countersteering. In most turns on the street, countersteering
with some weight shift should get you through turns at amusing speeds. I'd
recomend picking up a copy of "A Twist of the Wrist II" by Kieth Code for
more information on the art of cornering a motorcycle.
I'm taking STAR, Jason Pridmore's School in September and would be interested
in hearing any feedback from others who have taken it.
For what it's worth, I find the Sprint ST very comfortable when riding with
your weight held by your legs and think Gen Mars or Heli Bars would detract
from the proper position for sport riding. Likewise, I feel the standard
windscreen allows more air to cool the rider and take weight off the wrists
then the optional taller screen would. I'm not trying to be against them, I
had Gen Mars on my VFR and I liked them, but I just thought I put another
opinion out there.
Also, when I first got my Sprint ST, the gearbox was a rock; stiff and full
of missed shifts. Eric assured me it would loosen up and now with 5200 miles
I can say it shifts beautifully even with the shifter in the stock position.
For those having trouble; ride it! It gets better.
Still no one know what heelguards are?
Are people doing valve adjustments at 6000 miles? And for any who have, how
were they?
Any opinions on the following street tires: BT56, BT56SS, Pilot Sports, and
D207s. I've seen the Performance Bikes review, I'm looking for firsthand
opinions.
Rick Paukert
The Woodlands, TX
'99 Sprint ST
(It doesn't have a name)
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