Thoughts on this guy's riding style? [Video]

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https://youtu.be/Ut6Wpm46NSs

Many of you will know the RoyalJordanian YouTube channel. Most of the videos are commutes around London. In the video above, he's gone out into the countryside for a tootle around some B roads, and I have noticed that he is constantly opening and closing the throttle without necessarily changing gears.

Beyond lessons, no-one's really taught me what good riding looks like, so I'm not sure what to think of this. His lines and corner entry etc seems smooth (good) but that constant opening/closing seems really counter-intuitive: like, pick a speed and stick to it unless the road changes.

There may be other reasons for playing with the throttle - enjoying acceleration or engine noise etc - and as I say the corner entry etc seems smooth, but I'd been interested to know what people here make of it.
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Gah! I'm really not one for such videos. I've got a select few favourite Youtube channels and, nothing against anyone including him, but he isn't one of them. That video's a fairly typical example of why I don't watch such channels. You get a lot of useless information (i.e. what the bike sounds like, and what the dash looks like), but the really useful stuff (such as the riding techniques you're asking about) are impossible to assess. Why? Because you can't see what he sees. I think he rides in the sort of areas I like to ride. These places are beautiful, especially at this time of the year, but they can be deceptive. For instance, it may look like all trees and an empty road, but it isn't. When you're actually riding a bike, you can see if there's an entrance to a farm or a layby by the side of that nice tree-lined B-road, and if there is, you anticipate, position and prepare accordingly for someone pulling out of there. Those B-roads are just as likely to be an expensive suburb (Oxfordshire), tastefully styled and lined with magnificient trees, as an actual forest. Line of sight, what's visible through hedges, around corners, differences in visibility when in the shade vs under direct sunlight, you can't see, from that video. His riding style seems sedate, conservative and in a sort of touristic mode, but it isn't possible to tell much from the camera. There's also the issue that the bike and its capabilities are completely unknown to anyone except someone who's ridden a Vitpilen, so the decisions he makes are all based on the handling and braking power of that bike in particular.

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Maybe he's a bus driver. They seem to do that a lot too, possibly to try to save fuel by coasting much of the time.

[stinkwheel]

Looks good. the throttle is an anlogue control.

He's using the power to pick the bike up out of the corners and the engine braking to slow down.

He has so much power and engine braking, he doesn't need to change gear to ride that bike at speed on those roads.

He's also thoroughly enjoying the huge dollops of torque that engine produces by winding it on out of corners, he then has to shut the throttle because there are speed limits.

As a general rule, if it looks smooth, it is also both fast and correct.

If you want to see how to ride a bike on the throttle and use the throttle to slow down, speed up and pick the bike up out of corners, watch someone doing a moto gymkhana. They rarely change gear. Or use the clutch. Kind of an extreme version of what he's doing out on the road there.
https://youtu.be/EHzOt3aFUws
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[weasley]

What he said. The camera makes the road look wider than it is and the corners further away - I see someone accelerating when it’s appropriate and backing off in preparation for a change of direction or a reduced view. The fact that it’s a thumping great single through a dirty pipe makes the difference between on and off sound dramatic.
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[MarJay]

He's using his view ahead to govern whether he can be on the gas or not. I do this on tight B roads because you often can't be sure that you can hit the gas hard, but you also want to be going faster than you are until a hazard appears.

I don't think it's particularly bad technique. RJ does tend to be a lot harder on and off the throttle in London traffic, so the fact that he's smooth at all here is something of a surprise to be honest.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I think I'd be using the gears a lot more but I've only ridden IL4s and that's a big single, isn't it?

[chris_hu_cheng]

As seems to be the consensus, looks like what I would expect, I have a lot a roads like that and narrower around where I live and enjoy riding around on a variety of bikes.

I borrowed a camera from my son and was surprised how hard it is to get a good sense of speed, rider visibility and slope of road from the resultant video and tell the difference between a corner and a bend.

On a more powerful bike making a bit of progress it seems to make sense to squirt forward when visibility opens up, and engine break when the future is less certain. with good torque you don't need to change gear much.

Quite different on the same roads on a 125, but also fun.

You never know what is around some corners where I live, agricultural vehicles, big dollops of mud. Or why someone might slow down, a hand written sign warning of horses (that exit from a farm entrance just around the corner) or the distinctive smell of cut vegetation that warns a hedgerow cutting tractor might be near by.

[TravisBickle]

The roads look familiar. Does anyone know if this is in Kent somewhere?
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[TravisBickle]

[doggone]

I used to watch his videos quite a bit and he's a good and very experienced rider, I do notice odd times he goofs up with the over-ambitious filtering but cuts the clip before you see the result.

[JackButler]

You would be surprised at just who Royal Jordanian is, if you watch lots of the vids closely you will see that more than a few folk in London instantly recognise & greet him, even from under that helmet . . . .

He really is a nice guy, incredibly wealthy & humongously well endowed in the charisma stakes, he oooozes charm, wimmin melt in his presence & I've yet to see an average bloke walk away feeling at least 2" taller after having met him.

Who is Royal Jordanian???
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Go on then. Amaze us.

[chickenstrip]

I haven't been near London in a long while.
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[Kris]

boring video

much better
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[DJP]

His style is perfect - he rides just like me!

But seriously, that's exactly how I ride that kind of road.
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