5 High Speed Cornering Mistakes I Couldn’t Believe I was Doing
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2024
- After a few track days and a conversation with professional racing coach, Ken Hill, I learned: you’re not a bad rider. Just avoid these 5 common cornering mistakes.
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I realize I'm just some random person on the Internet...but I wanted to let you know I really admire the work you are doing, not only to improve yourself, and your skills on a motorcycle, but sharing that work with others and giving inspiration and motivation to do better themselves so we can enjoy this activity safely. Thank you!
Thank you
Great comment friend! Totally agree with you!!
Very well said!!
Indeed. 💪🏾
The slow u turns were one of the best videos I have seen in a long time.I have been riding for 50 years and I still hope to learn more.Your journey has been inspiring to an old guy because we need more young people to keep the vibe alive. Stay safe .
I do have a mantra that I use every time I go out to travel, be it locally, or to work (I've lived with an hour each way commutes on high density roads) or long distance. It helped me when I was a risky rider (suppressed risk assessment due to depression), and it helps me still:
[Whoever you worship, or omit], make this journey safe. Safe physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually (I believe in a higher power, shoot me. Omit if it doesn't fit you). Safe for me, safe for all I come into proximity with. (This literally covers everyone and everything. Pedestrians, pets, idiots, motorists, everything) So long as it causes no harm, make it happen. Thank you.
I hope this is an inspiration for whatever mantra you make for yourself to set you in a safe(r) riding mindset each time you swing a leg over that saddle.
You're doing good work here Ms Doodle. Now I haven't ridden a motorcycle for a bunch of years and don't know what I'm talking about. But high speed cornering is exactly as that racer dude mentioned. It's not all about the knee down! Personally I have never ridden fast enough to kneed 😉 it to be honest. But public road surfaces are simply not consistent enough for high speed malarkey in my opinion.
And, when he spoke about his "moments" of his knee saving an off, we kneed to understand what's hap in those situations. The millisecond your knee applies any pressure to the road, it alters the tire's contact point and transfers a little more weight to it, so increasing grip just a bit, and hopefully enough to get through. That's the way I see it any how.
And if you want to have a laugh, I was walking across a grassy roundabout in town in Y2K, and saw a sport bike approaching. He (presumably) joined the r'bt at an acceptable slow speed, then proceeded to go round twice, with his, presumably virgin, knee pad noisily rubbing itself on the road for almost 720 degrees around the bout, then shot off back the way he came! I was in hysterics on the island amongst the pretty flower beds!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I was a track day junkie for several years eventually getting my provisional racing license. I was very fortunate to never go down on the track. I started out with a track school to get training before I started doing track days on my own. I worked my way from the beginner group up to the advanced group fairly quickly. The best piece of advice was given to me was, "if you feel like you're going fast, slow down". Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. You get faster by becoming more efficient. Hitting your brake markers, hitting the right apex, etc.
I loved where you mentioned visualizing. Visualizing your ride is great advice 👍
Many’s, many years ago I did the Suoerbike school with Keith Code at the old Loudon, NH track. Then early the next year helped a friend do a WERA 6 hour road race at the Pocono track in PA (had to have three riders). I am not real fast but one main thing I learned is not to go super fast on the street. You can make a mistake on the track and probably will be OK (I did and luckily saved it; make a mistake on the street when super fast and the probability to get hurt or worse goes way up. Track time also improves your street safety IMO. Great video Carolyn!
COOL!!!!
Hey Doodle, thanks for so many great videos and lessons. I definitely need to practice more.
This is a really good video. I’m 63 and have been on two since I was 12 (dirt first) but have never had any professional training on two. I ride too aggressively but oddly enough just recently realized that and am trying to make a conscious effort to stop it. Interesting that I notice I speed around corners and am teaching myself to stop doing that as well. I have a lot to learn. Thank you for posting this.
Another great video! It's amazing how far you've come since you started. You are the very first motovlogger I followed on UA-cam and I've enjoyed watching you grow. Your channel is still one of my faves. Keep up the good work!
Love your channel and your humbleness… real rider!
Great video!
I just stick to high speed straight lines. All I have to worry about then is stopping, and in my opinion, that's optional
5:17 Jamie with Wicked Photography!! 🤩And Howie also!
Love that T shirt, love your commitment 😅
Great points. I'm strictly riding streets, but I've been trying to pick up pointers from track riders. It has been helpful when this flatlander gets in the mountains. Over time, concentrating on being smooth and steady while picking lines that keep my lane has increased my speed and confidence. It feels like I would've crashed if I went for speed over technique. Please keep bringing the info.
My mantra - head and eyes up, look ahead. My mind set is that every minute I ride I view as practice. In urban environments, I am constantly scanning for threats from drivers. I scan cross roads and look for idiots texting behind the wheel. I try to think about what to do with every potential driver threat.
Ken hill is a beast , glad ur having fun .
Aside from loosing my sight due to cataracts, what led me to quit riding was that my core and lower body strength was eroding due to age and injury (cars). I was increasing less able to see, and respond to events on the road. Rider errors were negligible, my lines were good, but the joy was eroding too, because it was so much more work to ride well.
Know when it’s time to hang up your leathers and helmet. Until then plan all your exits ahead, never stop being prepared.
Good stuff Doodle, there's an old saying in motorsports, "You go slow to go fast" I would like to hear what Ken Hill has to say about "Being in the zone" I've been there and it's different in every form of motorsports, time well spent is watching the video of Ayrton Senna talking about it!
Everyone should take their current bike on a track day at least once.
You should know the limits of your bike’s handling and braking.
And don’t ride on worn out tires!
Mid soft suspension helps me on track at street set up. Adds "grip" for me
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I really appreciate all these videos, doodle. I’ve yet to do a track day, but I would love to at some point. I’d also like for my son, who just stepped up from a 300cc bike to a Suzuki GSX-8R, to do some too. Also, I wanted to say that I love your Samuel L. Jackson mic 😂😂
I used ride bikes all the time but gave it up 2010 I'm now 68 and want to get back into bikes do you think I'm to old or should I go for it
Awesome Intel in all your videos... Just subscribed so thank you and you're welcome😂 quick question for you. The only riding experience I have was a rebel 265 on country roads. But I've decided I want to learn to ride and life! When I buy things they mean a lot and I typically keep them. I may only buy one motorcycle. I'm looking between the z650 and the z900. I know if I get the 650 eventually I'll get the 900. It being disciplined could I get the 900 as a first starter bike and grow it into long-term or do you highly recommend getting the 650 just to make me that much more of a quality rider before I jump up. I will trust your opinion
Many people underestimate how important having a plan for track day is. Not only it will make you safer (no panic), but make you more consistent and progressive faster.
Still nailing the video content after all this time.
Great video. I have never been on a track so I feel like I would like to try it sometime.
It was so fun!!
I was at the first MotoGP race at Laguna Seca, and at that track there is one spot where there isn't enough room to have a full run-off area for one corner so the wall is closer on the outside of the corner than on the euro-tracks they were used to. In the drivers meeting several riders were talking about needing to cancel the race because that corner was unsafe. Colin Edwards stood up and said "yeah, there is limited room there if you make a mistake and crash. So don't crash there." They didn't know how to handle that so he had to reiterate to them that in that one corner they should keep a little more margin in their riding. Saying that to a room full of the best riders in the world is kind of crazy.
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Are you done actually taking riding adventures? I like your videos but i really miss your riding days and adventures! Hope to see you actually riding again sometime!
Nice
I've been following your videos for a long time. And the only unbelievable thing about your uploads is how amazing and beautiful you are as a person. You honestly should be reported. There is something wrong with being this awesome.
Seriously though. Ride safe, and I hope you always get home after each ride. Anytime someone leaves for a ride those that love them worry about them never coming home.
Good to see you working on your skills, however, you looked like you were standing still compared to the other bikes passing by... keep on practicing!
She's always working on her skills...
I've no idea how she still sucks though lol
Ride safely and carefully, dear be well😊
silly question….but i. priced in one of your vids that you started racing on a sim, i think isle of man tt 3…in racing cars, sims help a lot, did you find that that sim mentally helped you at all? thank you for posting, just finished msf, got my license and gear…shopping for bikes now, your videos hav helped all the way thru.
she hasn't been out of america never mind the tt
Sometimes you get enjoying the ride,you forget to think ahead of you
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As a brit racer, whats the track at 9:20, looks fab! One for the list when I come to the states
It’s Virginia International Raceway. It’s about 3 hours south of Richmond, VA in the Danville area. Her video is taking place on the “South Course” which is the short, technical track. The North Course is where MotoAmerica races. California Superbike holds their classes on the North Course. As might Champs. I don’t know about Ken Hill’s selections.
And yes, both courses are tremendously good.
I tend to ride like a motorcycle cop when street & highway cornering: I sit up fairly straight and I push the bike down on its side underneath me, almost sitting on the side of the saddle. This is a very poor technique on the track; it will lose you many thousands of a second. But on the street, there are no lap times and if you crash and slide with this technique, you do so while sitting on top of your bike. Cops want to get there fast, but they don't want to risk a second incident en route.
I ride in a neutral position or counter lean like a cop as well. I have more control over the bike If I have to make an abrupt change for a bump, to brake or change my line for one reason or another.
Where do I get your shirt? lol
Can I just say, "Oppan Gagngam Style!" 😂
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Soooo what were the five mistakes?
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Two big mistakes, made by too many riders? Confusing the street for a racetrack, and ability for talent.
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By cutting so many old videos in, I feel the videos get less coherent.
Track riding is of absolutely NO relevance to me!
This is a mistake. Learning how to operate your bike and plan for corners is directly relevant to the street. You don’t have to ride fast (street or track) to improve as a rider from track training.
@@cj-ef1rp I agree, I’m 69 years old and past my test in Feb this this year, so zero experience.
It's not easy or safe to practise your cornering riding skills on the road. I'm lucky, I have a track less than mile away from where I live, so I thought I would give it a go. It has a novice and an advanced lane and you ride for ten minutes, then lanes swap over. I was in the novice lane on my little CB300R, but I was totally out gunned by the big boys. I was nervous at first, but it's surprising how quickly you get into it. On my third 10 min session I found myself chasing the big boys round the bends.
They left me for dead on the short straight though. I'll probably go two or three times a year in dry weather. But do you what? I reckon track riding could become addictive. I throughly enjoyed my 30 mins. Highly recommended.
This girl is super unlikable.
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