Lucifer Caitiff
Junior Member
I've been riding a lot with my friends these past few months. I've put down a lot of miles on my own, but it was mostly freeway. My friends are far more experienced, the best rider of our group is also my mechanic.
Last ride he told me that i was leaning too far off my bike through a turn. He taught me that I should lean with the bike, lean my body the same angle as the bike, that sorta thing. Well, I started doing that. Every morning on my commute to work I get on a full circle turn to get on the freeway, I was sitting in cruising mode, my heels hanging off the foot pegs, and I started feeling the ground dragging against my boot.
'WTF!' i thought, 'Am I REALLY that good now, that I'm DRAGGING?!'....sure enough I was. I told my riding mentor about this and he said it was good that I had my foot out, because I could have caught my footpeg or something hard that could have laid me down. Always keep a toe hanging off so you can gauge where you are.
That was the lesson I learned, luckily I didn't learn it the hard way
...but I will need new boots soon if I keep this up.
Last ride he told me that i was leaning too far off my bike through a turn. He taught me that I should lean with the bike, lean my body the same angle as the bike, that sorta thing. Well, I started doing that. Every morning on my commute to work I get on a full circle turn to get on the freeway, I was sitting in cruising mode, my heels hanging off the foot pegs, and I started feeling the ground dragging against my boot.
'WTF!' i thought, 'Am I REALLY that good now, that I'm DRAGGING?!'....sure enough I was. I told my riding mentor about this and he said it was good that I had my foot out, because I could have caught my footpeg or something hard that could have laid me down. Always keep a toe hanging off so you can gauge where you are.
That was the lesson I learned, luckily I didn't learn it the hard way
...but I will need new boots soon if I keep this up.