Being light on the bars allows the steering head to swing…
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Being light on the bars allows the steering head to swing into the corner.
3x world champion Freddie Spencer knows a thing or two about motorcycles, so when he talks, we listen.
Especially when it's something that sounds counterintuitive.
Freddie is stressing the importance of being light on the bars, not just for feedback, but also to let the steering head track back into the corner.
If we resist (by maintaining pressure on the bars mid corner), we may add more lean angle, but to get our motorcycles to truly change direction efficiently, we need to let the front wheel track back into the corner toward the new direction of travel. Every motorcycle is designed for this. We regularly host and train the engineers responsible for these designs, so we ask.
So how do we reduce load on our hands? Easiest way is to drive our outside leg into the fuel tank. This removes weight from our hands. Need a little extra? Try exhaling on corner entry as well: this fires our core and really allows us to lighten those hands.
#motorcycles
3x world champion Freddie Spencer knows a thing or two about motorcycles, so when he talks, we listen.
Especially when it's something that sounds counterintuitive.
Freddie is stressing the importance of being light on the bars, not just for feedback, but also to let the steering head track back into the corner.
If we resist (by maintaining pressure on the bars mid corner), we may add more lean angle, but to get our motorcycles to truly change direction efficiently, we need to let the front wheel track back into the corner toward the new direction of travel. Every motorcycle is designed for this. We regularly host and train the engineers responsible for these designs, so we ask.
So how do we reduce load on our hands? Easiest way is to drive our outside leg into the fuel tank. This removes weight from our hands. Need a little extra? Try exhaling on corner entry as well: this fires our core and really allows us to lighten those hands.
#motorcycles
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