The piece below was written by Marina Keegan '12 for a special edition of the Yale Daily News distributed at the class of 2012's commencement exercises last week.
Tips for cornering on your motorcycle. So how do you ride through a corner? Cornering together. In de flow.. Sometimes, everything seems to fit together. Without being aware what you are doing, you. Practise conciously.
Counterintuitively, you get in the flow most easily when you also try, from time to. In cornering, everything is important: how you look through the corner in advance. Of course, reading alone will not make you better in cornering: you will have to. But reading about cornering may help you there.. Looking. Looking further and further and further.. By far the most important thing to do to get your cornering fluent, is, as always with. Judge corners. You will have to learn to judge corners, in order to be able to enter an unknown corner.
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By looking far ahead, you can sometimes see corners long before you have arrived there. Judging unknown corners gets better with experience, of course, but to accelerate that. Try to think whether there were. Look where you want to go. In the corner itself, it's important to look where you want to go, as always (so don't look.
Always look *far ahead*. Try to pay attention, in a corner, to the way the corner behaves: tightening curves. You should choose your line such that.
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What you can see. Outside the track, almost always your *vision* is the limiting factor. Your line then will not. Therefore, you split a corner in two: Outside. You start the corner (lean in) where it starts, as much as possible in the outside of the corner. Before entering the corner, you should have the correct speed, be in the correct gear, and have.
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Then you lean in, and you stay in the outside of the corner. Straight out. Somewhere in the corner you arrive at a point from where you, from the outside where you still are. To do that, you have to lean in again, and now you accelerate out of the corner, via the inside of. That way, you have maximum view all the time.
Looking: tightening corners. You will not always be warned in advance. Treacherous. It is not always possible to judge corners before you enter them.
A nasty kind of corner. Such a corner starts easy but gets tighter. Sometimes there are warning signs so you will not be taken by suprprise, like in this. Corners with a decreasing radius are especially treacherous because you will often not. Vanishing point. You are able to notice such corners longer in advance, when you, while in the. It is the point. at which the inner and outer side of the corner seem to come together.
When you observe that your distance to the vanishing points keeps getting bigger. But when the vanishing points gets closer, you know that the corner will get tighter. Leaning in extra by.
Pushing with your knee is easier then. You will not only decrease your speed, but the motorcycle. Mind that you don't hit the rear brake hard in panic! In general, you will ride corners in such a way that there still is the possibility. After all, you only ride to the limits on a circuit. Looking: negative camber corners. Roundabouts often have negative camber.
Positive camber. The ultimate form of positive camber is the wall of death. The riders in there. Sometimes, you ride through corners with a positive camber, and you will notice that. A positive camber makes you ride a curve whil your motorcycle holds a right angle. The surface of a positive camber corner goes upwards to the. Negative camber. A corner with negative camber is the opposite: the outside of the corner is lower. That means that you have to lean in more than in the same corner and the same speed.
Often you don't see it in advance. You notice that the corner seems tighter. Roundabouts. Roundabouts are often higher in the centre than at the outside, so have a negative camber. That has been done so that dirt or oil will stream to the outside, while at the same time.
So, especially in the wet, try to keep in the inside at roundabouts (less dirt there), and. Prepare: braking and changing gears. Being prepared for the corner in England. Being prepared. Before you enter a corner, you should be ready. You should have the right speed (so you should.
The right gear is the one in which you ride through the corner easily, and which allows. Practise. A good exercise to get a feeling for which gear suits which corner, is to choose a stretch. You will notice where you are in too high a gear because it is hard to accelerate without. Take your time. Take your time to prepare for a corner.
If you have to do everything in the last. If you really want to ride a certain distance in the shortest possible time, you would. But even then, you are better off when. If you take your time for the preparation, you can concentrate on the corner itself. Entering the corner: Leaning in. Leaning in, in England.
Leaning in. In fact, the word steering is the wrong word, because it has the association of a steering wheel. That is not the way it is. A much better word is . You lean again in the point where you can ride out of.
How? How do you do that, lean your motorcycle in? It helps to push with your weight, and it helps to push.
In a corner to the left, you push the bike leftward with your. It also helps if you push against the inside handlebar. It feels like you push that handlebar downward. It's better when you get used to lean with the motorcycle, or lean a little bit inwards, because you.
Only in very tight corners, motorcross- style can be of use, because you are more in control. In the corner: the throttle.
Looking around the corner. In the corner: on the throttle. The ideal situation is when you are able to turn on the throttle, little by little. Whith the throttle on, and without pulling the clutch, your motorcycle is much more. When you pull the clutch during a. The acceleration will get your bike stright up again.
In the corner: Speed. Don't concentrate on speed (photo from Steven Hendriks)Slow in, fast out.
What you should know about speed in corners is very simple: you enter them slowly and you go out fast. Try to give your attention to the line through the corner, and to the amount of throttle you give. Speed will come as a bonus that way. In general, when you try to go as fast as possible, you end up going less fast than when you.
The right speed. What is the right speed? There is only one correct answer: the speed at which you feel comfortable. Not off the throttle. If you notice, halfway, that you go off the throttle, then your speed was too high (by the way. If you notice that cornering doesn't go like you would like it to go, that you can't find the right. Don't grab the handlebars. Other signs that you go faster than what is right for you, is when you notice that you are holding.
Braking in a corner. Oops, brake! Sometimes, you have to brake. Of course, you should always try to enter a corner with the right entryspeed. But here, we suppose you didn't. Your motorcycle will steer even more into. Emergency Brake: front and clutch.
But sometimes, you really have to BRAKE. A child might cross the road, or a car pulls out from. In such a case, your back brake won't help you. Pull the clutch and use the front brake.
In such a case: pull the clutch, and brake with your front brake. Be careful, and keep pushing your bike into the corner (for most people, the outer knee and outer. When you practice, you will be able to brake rather hard in corners! Polygon instead of a fluent line. Surprised by the corner. The mistake that is made most often, in cornering, is not to ride a fluent line, but showing a. This mistake is made in different ways: Start too early.
It's possible, for instance, to start cornering too early. Then your bike ends up near the side of the road. When your name is Valentino Rossi. So, the right speed is a combination of the motorcycle (tyres, ground clearance, frame). Too fast. You entered a corner too fast if you. Can't resist the urge to brake during the corner.
Can't resist to close the throttle during the corner. Don't take the corner at all, but instead ride straight on (that means that you didn't dare to. When you notice that you tend to enter corners too fast, read the piece about speed.
In the end, you will go faster through corners than when you keep trying to keep your speed up. Too slow? Do I have to walk slowly here?
Never a mistake! Lots of people see it as a mistake when they notice, when having finished a corner, that they could. When you enter a corner at a slower speed than might seem necessary with. The complete picture. The pro.. So what do you do, with all these tips and clues? Start slowly is the rule. Do't think about what .
So make sure that you. Lean in. Point three is entering the corner by leaning in, following your virtual line, and in the. Throttle. Point four is the throttle: you always give throttle while in a corner.