I was doing this small ramp over and over and over (like 50 times) the other night and had no problems getting the pegs/cstand down. A car came along at one point and took the centre lane I was practicing in so I took the inside lane.... I leaned in so hard, I heard this new scraping sound and almost lost the rear end. It wasn't until the next day I found out what it was I managed to scrape - the exhaust can! That car driver must have had quite the spark show :)
are you hanging yet? Shift your weight to the inside (one butt cheek off the seat, one on) and then enter the corner. :thumb:
If I try that, which I did, it throws the handling way off and even then my knees aren't really close to the pavement. Less than 1 month to go until FAST school, a one day track lesson where I should learn that.
there is no handling when your hanging off, there is just turning. You cant do weird things when hanging off, only a constant turn, anything else might toss you off. But your right, one day at track school should have you straightend out. Good luck. :thumb:
Stay on the seat like a dirt bike, the GS likes to be riden like a dirt bike. On the street, if you have to hang off to make a corner, you're going too fast; you never know what's around the corner...racing is for the racetrack...oh, is that a soapbox I'm standing on, I'll get off now...
The handling gets "weird" because you are holding on to the handlebars to tight or are supporting your weight with your arms.
To hang off properly you have to let your legs support you with most of your weight on the inside footpeg and the outside knee up aganst the tank.
You can practice this by shifting hang positions back and forth with your arms folded across your chest. Once you get used to that, then it should break you of holding on with the bars.
BTW- I second the don't use the street to practice racing on. A little tighter and it would have been more than a sparks show that truck got.
Save it for the track day, there will be plenty of time for you to get comfortable and scrape things there.
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Barna, I thought you were supposed to be breaking in that rebuilt engine?
Thanks for the advice guys!
johnla, I was, and figured it's more fun than riding around the city at night with cops hiding all over the place. You don't have to be going too fast or revving the engine hard to be cornering.
Barna
Quote from: rrbarnaThanks for the advice guys!
johnla, I was, and figured it's more fun than riding around the city at night with cops hiding all over the place. You don't have to be going too fast or revving the engine hard to be cornering.
Barna
I always new you were hardcore :x <---I need a head banger emotion
One day I am going to make a trip up to Canada and I will definitly look you up because I know you are going to know all the fun roads :cheers:
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Another thing to reduce scraping is to make sure you've upgraded your springs in front and your shock in back. That will help keep the bike up under load.
I haven't been folowing you mods so if you've already done this then you're just going to have to learn how to lean off the bike like you should be doing anyway :nana: If there is any room left you might want to bump up the rear pre-load as well.
I haven't scraped anything yet but my rear is also about 1-2 inches higher than stock with me sitting on it since I changed out my rear shock.