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Looking at the point you're turning to is good, but the main thing is to work the clutch. Have it on the biting point as you turn. If you start to wobble let the clutch out a little, and the bike will stabilise |
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Practice walking-pace slow riding while slipping the clutch and controlling the speed using the back brake first. Once you're happy with your slow riding, you then move into a U-turn.
Every U-turn starts with a slow ride. You can't just set off and turn immediately. Get moving in a straight line first, control your speed, once you're in a well balanced slow ride, look to where you want to go and steer the bike round there, keeping in the exact same slow riding "mode". ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles. |
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Bikes are built to tilt, to make'em turn you have to lean them over.
If you try hold it up, you have to turn the bars more and more and more to get the same amount of turn, and counter productively, slower you go and the more you try hood it up, so the more you get into a battle with the geometry trying to 'fall over' as you turn the front wheel off the centre line to the back, and the bike wants to tuck under you, and not go round a corner, the front wheel acting like a bent bulldozer blade to the back,,,, and it ALL 'feels' wrong and slowig down more, holding bike upright more is the naturtal thing to try do to stop yourself falling over....
Watch some moto-gym-khana vids.... get a bike over use lean and its astounding how tight a bike will turtn even at reletively slow speeds.. so you probabloy DONT need to go so slow, JUST stop fighting the bike and let the bugga lean....
Unfasionable prective is to 'counter-lean' which isd to let the bike tilt beneath you, and keep your nody more upright for baslence but NOIT the bike.... watch moto gym, you'll see them doung this too...
BUT that's the key... I have done two up fully laden U turns on a 1 in 3 Welsh hill tyrack, in the width oif the less than 2m road (according to OS map!) so much less than they give you on Mod 1 test, and in much worse circumstances with loose gravel grip, a bloody steep hill and a squigglebum pillion on the perch! Ity JUST tales a bit of confidence and vballs and a bit of lean, even on a heavy old long wheelbase barge like my old CB Seven-Fifty..
If you have done DAS training it is likely something that is a bit of a brain fart inb test where you forget all you have been taught and not really given time to practice, with a few test tricks like slip and effinb drag, keepiung revs up and slipping clutch and holding bike back on the back brake... oh how I HATE That particular bit of expedience.... NUT.... ask in training for more practioce, dont believe you HAVER to drag and effin-slip... trfy riding it clean and grow some to tipo the thing over and use the throttle and a litle counter lean to jhold it up and pick, it up... it IS possible it is just getting oast your own fears and practice practice prtactice... even if instructor is getting bored on the pavement... buy em a pa ck of fags and tell them to start smoking if they dont already! ____________________ My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
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Apply a little bit of power and control the speed with the back brake. U-turns will become a breeze. ____________________ a.k.a 'Geri'
132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good |
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Old Thread Alert!
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