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chickenstrip Super Spammer
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Posted: 20:53 - 22 Aug 2018 Post subject: Sticking a leg out. |
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As I understand it, this is done to help slow the bike and/or get it turned, right?
But I've just watched Leon Haslam seemingly using it in BSB at Cadwell to defend from Jake Dixon - to make himself wider? That can't be allowed, is it? ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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G The Voice of Reason
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Posted: 10:06 - 23 Aug 2018 Post subject: |
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https://www.miriamjoywrites.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/nobody-knows.png
There was a good story about some sort of oval racing where everyone looked back by looking under their arm pit. Something like...
Most of the top riders did it this way, but no one could say why they used this technique - it was just presumed to be part of the overall package you need to win.
Eventually someone traced it back through a variety of top riders who remembered learning it from seeing others doing it.
The originator it turned out, only had one eye and that was the only way they could see to that side! |
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MarJay wrote: | I always thought it was a way of getting even more weight over the front end under braking, and maybe settling the bike to be ready to shift bodyweight in the corner. It's definitely not used as a blocking technique, there just isn't enough coverage. |
I don't know, I maybe thought that until this incident I mentioned. Seemed to me Haslam stuck his leg out almost to a horizontal position at full stretch one time - it definitely made a significant difference to the room Dixon had to try a move on his inside.
My comment on what its actual use is generally, came from what I heard on some race commentary or other once. I figure if it was just a fad started by Rossi, it would die out, but it has only got more common. I mean, it's common in MotoGP, and you'd think anything at that level that was a waste of time and effort would be quickly discarded. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 248 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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