drifiting

[Chuck]

I must be old school, I consider drifting something snow does in windy blizzard.
But I've FISH-TAILED a few corners in my days.

Fishtailing and drifting are close, they have the same cause (an overabundance of torque that breaks the rear end loose).  A Fishtail is an oscillation: the tail moves to one side, and then swings over to the other side, usually several times (like a fish!) before coming back into line (or spinning you right around yourself).  Drifting is a controlled slide: the rear moves to the outside of the turn and powers you into the turn.

Don't let anyone who has fishtailed tell you they were drifting in order to sound cool.

That said, I've drifted AND fishtailed on gravel and wet pavement, but never on dry.

[Alphamazing]

or a local 600rr stunter 'drifting': http://www.teamxmx.com/video/teach.wmv

Damn. Those guys were actually pretty skilled. Cool stuff.

[Yankee Punker]

I must be old school, I consider drifting something snow does in windy blizzard.
But I've FISH-TAILED a few corners in my days.

Fishtailing and drifting are close, they have the same cause (an overabundance of torque that breaks the rear end loose).  A Fishtail is an oscillation: the tail moves to one side, and then swings over to the other side, usually several times (like a fish!) before coming back into line (or spinning you right around yourself).  Drifting is a controlled slide: the rear moves to the outside of the turn and powers you into the turn.

Don't let anyone who has fishtailed tell you they were drifting in order to sound cool.

That said, I've drifted AND fishtailed on gravel and wet pavement, but never on dry.

That makes sense, see your never too old to learn something new. So now I can say I've done both, and fishtailing is more for fun, were drifting is more for technique !

[pantablo]

http://www.burntheedge.com/forums/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=1906

[nick_villan]

i cant, but my bodies cbs does it nice

[jake42]

I don't think a single person mentioned that drifting is probably not the best thing to learn how to do, especially since two days ago people were bailing off the back of his f%$king bike. Apparently Nik can do no wrong. 

[nick_villan]

yeah, im kinda temeting to look away from that stuff. im going to stick with drag and practicing my cornering (with out a pasenger for a long as time)