Are you a leaner?
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From: Mount Holly, NC
I used to have a hard time NOT dragging pegs in some fast corners. Then I started working on body position like what you would see sport bike riders do. I still scrape but I am able to get more speed out of it.
Off the seat, hanging off the side, head positioned where I am looking to the outside of my mirror and all my weight on my legs and none on my arms. Caught up to quite a few sport bikes going through some twisites.
As a disclaimer - I do this on backroads with good visability that I know very, very well while still being close to the speed limit.
Off the seat, hanging off the side, head positioned where I am looking to the outside of my mirror and all my weight on my legs and none on my arms. Caught up to quite a few sport bikes going through some twisites.
As a disclaimer - I do this on backroads with good visability that I know very, very well while still being close to the speed limit.
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From: OC SoCal
Well, I do have some mighty scraped up floorboards. But to me this Heritage's boards are so low it's hard not to scrape 'em.
Not that I'm taking turns very fast, just like to take 'em tight.
Sometimes I need to lean more but trying not to scrape makes me take a turn wide.
On fwy loop exits, when behind a slow car, I do go wide then lean into a tight turn.
Not that I'm taking turns very fast, just like to take 'em tight.
Sometimes I need to lean more but trying not to scrape makes me take a turn wide.
On fwy loop exits, when behind a slow car, I do go wide then lean into a tight turn.
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Most people take left turns deeper on the street than right ones. Probably because lane position on a left hand bend is further away from the centerline (and thus oncoming traffic) and right turns are closer to the center.
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From: southeast PA
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From: St George, UT
Speaking just for me
I cringed whenever I scrape footboards on the pavement. After all, I paid a large sum of money for that beauty, and so I treat it nicely.
Here is a little device I use in the twisties, and you'll find sport riders will be impressed; enter the curve on the inside and hold the line that way. This keeps the distance traveled shorter, and the lean angle required is less. Use the power to accelerate out of the turn, which generates centrifugal force in a straight line, and the bike tends to straighten up, further reducing the lean angle. Doing this will make the most of the lean angle method, and you'll scrape less.
While on a trip through Canada three years ago, a buddy of mine went with me on his BMW RS1100. We went through some tight twisties in Canada, and again in Oregon. Both times he commented how well my Ultra cornered, and that he was working hard to stay up with me. Just my .02 worth.
Here is a little device I use in the twisties, and you'll find sport riders will be impressed; enter the curve on the inside and hold the line that way. This keeps the distance traveled shorter, and the lean angle required is less. Use the power to accelerate out of the turn, which generates centrifugal force in a straight line, and the bike tends to straighten up, further reducing the lean angle. Doing this will make the most of the lean angle method, and you'll scrape less.
While on a trip through Canada three years ago, a buddy of mine went with me on his BMW RS1100. We went through some tight twisties in Canada, and again in Oregon. Both times he commented how well my Ultra cornered, and that he was working hard to stay up with me. Just my .02 worth.
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From: Stamford, CT
Could the weight,location and spin direction of the compensator have something to do with that too?