Help please!!! Problems with sharp right turns
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Help please!!! Problems with sharp right turns
I need help quick! All the sudden I'm having problems with making sharp right turns. I've never had the trouble before. Just started going wide every time. Went out the last 2 days for parking lot practice. No progress at all. Thought I was going too fast. Even less 10 mph I can't turn right and go through 1 parking space without crossing into the other. It has gotten in my head some way and can't get it out. This is very unsafe. I'm nervous about turning in my subdivision. Worried I'll swing wide and hit someone. Ideas?
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I need help quick! All the sudden I'm having problems with making sharp right turns. I've never had the trouble before. Just started going wide every time. Went out the last 2 days for parking lot practice. No progress at all. Thought I was going too fast. Even less 10 mph I can't turn right and go through 1 parking space without crossing into the other. It has gotten in my head some way and can't get it out. This is very unsafe. I'm nervous about turning in my subdivision. Worried I'll swing wide and hit someone. Ideas?
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Go back to an open parking lot:
Do 50 figure 8s one way, then turn it around and do 50 figure 8s in the opposite direction.
Then set up a square around 20 or so parking spots and do right hand turns until you are sick of them.
Turn your head and look hard right, your bike will follow.
Taking the turns too slow makes them as tough as taking them too fast.
If you are that uncomfortable with them, you should stay off the streets until your comfort level is there.
Do 50 figure 8s one way, then turn it around and do 50 figure 8s in the opposite direction.
Then set up a square around 20 or so parking spots and do right hand turns until you are sick of them.
Turn your head and look hard right, your bike will follow.
Taking the turns too slow makes them as tough as taking them too fast.
If you are that uncomfortable with them, you should stay off the streets until your comfort level is there.
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Seeing as you're now nervous when making right handers are you tensing up your right shoulder? Meaning are you pulling your shoulder up towards your ear? If you are then you'll never be able to make that tight right turn. You have to relax, brake before the turn, then (gently) accelerate thru the turn.
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