How to get quicker around corners?

[dukeboy749r]

Counter steering - try that in a big open car park and don't get too giddy just doing small circles!

Certainly builds up some knowledge and confidence as to what a bike can do versus what your brian will say it should do...

[MC Bodge]

It helps if the suspension is 'balanced' front and rear, otherwise it can feel a bit squirrellyas you get leant over.



I'm not a great 'leaner', although I have grounded the pegs occasionally -the first time was on my monkey bike

If you look at John Guinness, he doesn't jump around all over the bike at the TT and he can shift a bit.

[Matbmx1]

Trackday.

[MrKipling43]

Mike600F said:

Freakuk said:

TOTW2 far easier to understand than 1

Haven't seen 1 myself, but 2 was brilliant. Loved the no BS bike and that they proved everything. Eye opening.

No it doesn't! You REALLY CAN steer a bike with the pegs!

[Hooli]

MC Bodge said:

It helps if the suspension is 'balanced' front and rear, otherwise it can feel a bit squirrellyas you get leant over.

Very true & a quick n easy way to check is stand up & 'bounce' on the pegs when riding. The bike should stay level as it drops & comes back up.

[SirBlade]

MrKipling43 said:

Mike600F said:

Freakuk said:

TOTW2 far easier to understand than 1

Haven't seen 1 myself, but 2 was brilliant. Loved the no BS bike and that they proved everything. Eye opening.

No it doesn't! You REALLY CAN steer a bike with the pegs!

BS
It's a myth, you can use the pegs to shift your weight, but pegs alone will not make a bike take a turn.

Half a degree at most every 100m.

[Hooli]

SirBlade said:

MrKipling43 said:

Mike600F said:

Freakuk said:

TOTW2 far easier to understand than 1

Haven't seen 1 myself, but 2 was brilliant. Loved the no BS bike and that they proved everything. Eye opening.

No it doesn't! You REALLY CAN steer a bike with the pegs!

BS
It's a myth, you can use the pegs to shift your weight, but pegs alone will not make a bike take a turn.

Half a degree at most every 100m.

Weighting the pegs can make the bike lean & that causes it counter steer due to it 'folding' around the headstock. So it sorta works but in a very much less effective way than just countersteering.

[goldblum]

Get a Tuono.Quite alarming how top heavy they feel in slow/medium corners.

[bennyboysvuk]

Ahem, it takes balls, but just going into a corner faster requires that you counter-steer much harder to get the bike turned and through a corner. However, the only issue with this is that if you don't counter steer hard enough, you won't make the corner. Tricky decision.

This is how I learnt to ride with loads of people who were much faster than me back in the late 90s. I only ever had one or two (hundred) scary moments too.