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  1. There is a tight banked corner I know of where you have to trail brake in to keep the front suspension loaded till the banking loads it. If you come off the brakes as you turn in it's too early and the front unloads and then reloads as it hits the banking making things very uncomfortable. I do remember reading about this kind of corner in one of Keith's books.
  2. Thanks jrock, sorry to take a while to put that up, the toe/hard parts of the bike touching down is a great one and has caught me out before. The idea with this is to have a list of each SR trigger that we can mentally run through in our minds so that we are better prepared when the situation arises. For example if you were to picture in your mind your toe/hard parts of your bike touching down and at the same time you are maintaining good throttle control, then when the situation occurs you are much more likely to do the right thing. Then you could picture the same thing happening and you have a nice easy grip on the bars etc..
  3. Fear of putting on the gas. Too much speed. Sliding the rear. Sliding the front. Front end shaking. Front end leaving the deck. Rear in the air under braking. Rear sliding into the corner. Other riders crashing in front. Other riders doing unexpected thing. Lots of lean angle. Quick flicking. Blown around by the wind. Rain. Chasing rider with their front wheel right up your tail pipe. Toe/ hard parts of bike touching down while leaned deep. Running off the track into grass or dirt etc. Above is a list of some things that can cause survival reactions. Please add any triggers you have experienced or can think of and I will add them to the list.
  4. I think having good throttle technique and being loose on the bars as outlined in Twist Of The Wrist 2 will deal with the front end slide. An important point is that getting the throttle rolling on as soon as you are over will get you through any front slide that develops at the entry, if you've got the gas off and the front goes I think its time to taste the tarmac you've gotta be already coming onto the throttle to save it. If you can get it GSXR600 read Kenny Roberts book which details, amongst many other cool things, the point that Keith makes about getting the gas on early.
  5. Keith's article http://www.superbikeschool.com/bbs/index.p...t=ST&f=11&t=111 helped a lot to improve my confidence in flicking a bike over
  6. Yes you can play it online Stuman, sign up here and download xlink kai http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/?go=faq if you click on the link just above where it says statistics on the right hand side of the page it will tell you what you need to know.
  7. Unless you've gone in way over your head I don't think you would 'react' to the front sliding except for holding it up with your knee. Ideally your technique is already doing all the things necessary to get you to the exit eg weight distributed correctly with the throttle and hands loose on the bars letting the front do its own thing. I've had the front let go a beauty on the racetrack so its tucking but I was already on the throttle and loose on the bars so it just rode through same as a MX bike. I guess this is where SR's could get in the way. I'm curious that you lost the front while accelerating, were you holding the bars a bit tight?
  8. Wow Willow must be cool I see MotoGP 4 will feature online play
  9. Do you mean the PS2 Namco MotoGP Stuman or the xbox one? I've put in a few laps at Phillip Island on the namco game, but haven't yet been to the track. That fast left before the hairpin must be pretty intense in real life (as well of course as the corner at the end of the front straight where I see all those great passing moves on the telly)
  10. Dunno yet, it comes out here on March 11. What does the bump do to you?
  11. I see Sears point will be in Gran Turismo 4, easy way to learn the track layout before going, from what I've seen they've improved Laguna as well to make it accurate.
  12. Hey who else loves this book, I pretty much destroyed my copy! I was having a racing comp with a friend on the playstation (motocross game) that went over weeks, when he started beating me I started using the mind management ideas from this book and got the upper hand You can practice and develop this stuff on video games! And the more you practice the more it becomes second nature..
  13. Maybe its easier to chop down through the gears without blipping on a world championship bike. I know it was Mick Doohans technique to hold the clutch in throughout the braking with no blipping, although he did mention that it was an unusual technique.
  14. Keith recommends in one of his books to master using just the front brake first and then consider the use of the rear if you find a use for it. Sounds reasonable to me, there are plenty of champion riders around who use only the front. A rider I used to know just won Isle Of Man and when he was over here he was only using the front brake. I think also in TOTW2 it mentions that Doug Chandler only uses the front. I'm sure there are plenty of others. If you can get to this level of riding using only the front brake why waste your attention bringing the rear brake into the mix when there are other more important skills to be developed. When I was racing last sometimes I would hammer the rear brake because of dirt riding habits, generally it was a pain in the arse resulting in unnecessary squirming around.
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