Leaning with knee...

I forget where I read it on here, but I recall someone writing about, leaning and cornering...when leaning, not only pressing on the bar, but also using your knee to push the bike to lean...I started doing this after reading about it and it works great...push on the bar with your hand, and use your opposite knee to push on the bike and it leans quick and smooth...

Does everyone do this, does everyone even know about this???

Thanks all,

Yes, most advanced riders will push the outside knee hard into the gas tank. But at the same time will press down on the inside peg. The entire action is done together, countersteering, pressing the knee, pressing the inside peg. All three will make the turn-in very smooth.

which is counter to what Keith Code teaches with his countersteering-only nonsense...

Yeah schizoid is right on the money here, the sequence:
If braking, initiate the turn while the forks are compressed, easier to turn in. Weight the inside peg, push on the clipon in the direction you are turning while moving weight forward and then push on tank with knee is how I do it.

Everybody has a style, Code has a book he hypes.

Gramps

You can ride threw a set of turns, not very fast, but using only your knee's to steer. I like to mess around some times and get up to speed and ride no handed only using my knees and presure on the pegs to steer the bike threw the corners. Just gotta be carefull though. Somtimes you think the bike will turn but it does not

the best way to practice it, is a downhill with some turns in it... put it in neutral or in 6th, then ride no handed...

Most fun I ever had on the street was a coast race down Mt Hamilton. Miles of switchbacks and tight narrow curves all downhill. You put the bike in neutral, leave the motor on to circulate oil in the tranny, and foot yourself off.

You learn alot about corner speed, how to corner, when to turn and how to turn when you have NO POWER to confuse you into thinking you are fast. The smoothest and usually heaviest guy wins. I won last time on my Bandit 1200,mostly cause gravity pulls that sucker downhill faster than the little ones and it has more intertia when it gets going.

Gramps