Question about keeping the right hand loose
Ok, so I've been thinking about technique in turns and performance riding. I've been working lately on using my legs to lock my body in position around the tank so my arms are free to countersteer. My question is related to the age-old question of why right turns are harder
The most common sense answer to that question, to me, is the fact that the natural tendency is to lock your right wrist and lower arm into position to maintain throttle. This in turn makes it very difficult to drop your body enough and countersteer enough to get the bike to drop into a smooth right turn. But...
My latest thought is this. If you're using your legs to lock your body to the bike, allowing your upper body to stay loose, what if you use mostly LEFT hand to counter steer the bike so you can keep the right arm loose for throttle control? What i mean is, while you're countersteering, you are doing almost all PUSH motion with the left hand to drop the bike into a left turn, and you are doing almost all PULL motion with the left hand to drop the bike into a right turn. All the while, your right arm is loose and your right hand is on the throttle, gripping to keep balance but not trying to push or pull, thus reducing the rigidity and making turns smoother.
Does this make sense? I haven't tried it yet, it just occurred to me as I'm thinkin about good riding technique. I'll experiment with it this weekend, I'm gonna do some riding out on Sunrise Highway here in San Diego.
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Originally Posted by riggz
its not really physics, more like anatomy. but dragging a knee makes your balls increase in size thus adding a little more weight on the lean side of the bike.
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Can we please start WW3 already i am sick of this shit.
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