DownrangeFuture
Electronic Repair Genius
Sometimes you still screw up the fundamentals. Today riding into work I was riding with my buddy like I always do. There's this one turn right after the gate into base where it's a 90* about 25' radius turn. So it's a faster 90* turn. Today there wasn't any cagers and we took it faster than usual. About 45mph. That's not quite pushing the turn, just about 80% normally for me.
Looked for the apex, turned in as soon as I saw it. Looked for my exit, saw it was off the road, so I tried to lean more, stick a knee out, and look for my desired exit but it wouldn't lean. I pushed harder on the outside peg and harder on the inside handlebar. No dice.
So the rubber side stayed down, but I still went off the road. Thankfully this particular turn has no curbing and I was mostly out of the turn by then. After practing the rest of the turns into work as if I was taking them at warp speed, I decided that I was pushing with my outside arm for some reason and that I wasn't getting into the throttle like I should. Just coasting around turns these days.
Back to practicing turns I suppose. And thankfully the buddy was leading today so no one saw me go off the road.
Looked for the apex, turned in as soon as I saw it. Looked for my exit, saw it was off the road, so I tried to lean more, stick a knee out, and look for my desired exit but it wouldn't lean. I pushed harder on the outside peg and harder on the inside handlebar. No dice.
So the rubber side stayed down, but I still went off the road. Thankfully this particular turn has no curbing and I was mostly out of the turn by then. After practing the rest of the turns into work as if I was taking them at warp speed, I decided that I was pushing with my outside arm for some reason and that I wasn't getting into the throttle like I should. Just coasting around turns these days.
Back to practicing turns I suppose. And thankfully the buddy was leading today so no one saw me go off the road.