This month's Doc Wong...

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...riding clinic was about pivot steering.

Pivot steering is to better use the angle of the steering axis to turn the bike. The better use of this technique results in less energy wasted in pushing the handlebars to turn and further lightens the pressure on the bars. You'll turn even faster with this (I did)!

Get your elbows down lower so that you are pushing the bars more in the plane of their travel. You do this by hunkering down more, using your abs to hold you up. This works great in conjunction with last months topic.

This is different than sitting upright and pushing down on the bars, huh? Takes less effort to affect the bars?

This was a very good clinic for me. I definitely learned something new and usefull! I think I hit 50 degrees getting leaned over, because I was even lighter on the bars. That and after I helped a Ducati in my group (I was the sweep), whose brakes had overheated and locked up, I had to catch up. Fun!

Oh, and BTW, Ducatis have an 11mm bleeder valve on the caliper.