Leaning over a 2009 Roadglide
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Well, I like riding my Harley's in a 'spirited' way, even though they're big tourers. I ride to work on them every day, and I'm not liking to scrape anything. I just llie to know where the limit is with this bike, so I know when to call it quits. Scraping the boards on the ultra ment that's as far as it'll go, and I wouldn't like to find out that the roadglide goed belly up before scraping the boards as a warning sign, hence my question...
They teach in MSF to lean with the bike but remember it is a beginner course. If you get off of the seat a bit and lower your body into the turn, you can go through the turn just as fast with less lean angle. Scraping hard parts should be avoided at all costs, it will upset the stability of the suspension in the turn and my introduce enough leverage to unweight a tire that is already at the limit of traction.
They dont get into this in the MSF because the technique and application would turn it from a two day class into weeks or months of discussion and practice.
There are many many books you can read about motorcycle riding techniques if you really want to bring your riding up to another level
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At 1:09 he almost high sides it. My guess is that he did what the quote in my sig says. It takes a few years (and some mishaps) to actually apply throttle counterintuitively in this situation. The natural response is to let off the throttle. While its spinning, the rear wheel is following the front wheel, so keep it spinning. If you cut throttle, the rear wheel regains traction and wants to go in a different direction than the front wheel.......motorcycles can only go one way.....
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