Cornering Technique - Body Position

He may be, but he's proper fast

 

You're getting on the gas too early.

 

Mr G Falappa won his first ever short circuit race having never been on track before

 

I had a shoulder op a few years ago which the NHS totally fucked up. I have to work really hard to remember to relax my right side, drop the elbow and shoulder. I find if I do this the rest sorta follows. Lately I'm working on lowering my head, then the rest follows. If I'm going wide, I consciously lower my head and stare up the track to carry me around. Still slow as buggery, I'm a slow leaner

 

and geometry (fork height in the yokes and rear ride height)

 

Mike Hailwood was renowned for sitting tight in the bike, none of this new fangled hanging off stuff and I have say he was none too shabby a racer. Andy

 

^ Ride height makes a remarkable difference IMO

 

I have zero natural talent, so have to learn it.

 

Ah yes but things have changed a huge amount. The battle of the eras is like comparing a musket to a sa80. Both good at the time.

There's good reason nobody is rigid like that anymore. Back then it obviously worked on what they had at the time. Just look how much Rossi has had to change his riding style through his career with the machinery changing

 

Not sure if this has been posted, may be worth a watch

 

Post 12 mate...

 

Not all that fast on a bike but found two bike set up related things that make big difference to running wide on exit; soft rear suspension and ride height. My k8 gixer ran wide on corner exit, dropping the front 5mm transformed it.

 

I hang off, just don't stick my inside knee out. It's pushing the knee out that makes me feel like I'm trying too hard whereas it feels perfectly natural to hang off with my knee still tucked. If I'm really tight, I've even been known to lift a foot off the peg so as not to scrape my boots. Weird, but seems to work for me so far.

On a supermoto, not a sports bike.

 

So are we talking 10mm in total?

 

My Streetfighter doesn't run wide on the exit. Goes where you look and doesn't deviate under throttle or braking. No idea why its good, you'd have to ask the pro suspension bloke who set it up. There may be a lesson there....

 

Didnt mean to mislead.

5mm forks on Suzuki. Held a really nice line in corners after that.

Noticed on other bikes if back too soft, then would run ride on exit/on throttle (squat related ?)

 

Don't discount ones own (my shit) technique when it comes to going wide. A huge transformation cam be made by braking and turning later