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korn

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  1. I just discovered that my motorcycle insurance - with Safeco - expressly exempts paying for damage to my bike that occurs during a "high performance driving school", or on a "racetrack". As this is otherwise the most affordable insurance I have found, I'd like to keep it and take out a 1-day policy just for attending the school. Does anyone have a recommendation for such insurance? If not, does anyone have a recommendation for "all the time" motorcycle insurance that is known to cover accidents that might occur at the school?
  2. Thanks ktk_ace, but... I don't see where that article explains what I remember experiencing - that my front wheel is pointed slight away from the corner/lean. The text has (emphasis added): "Once lean is achieved As the desired angle is approached, the front wheel must usually be steered into the turn to maintain that angle or the bike will continue to lean with gravity, increasing in rate, until the side contacts the ground. This process often requires little or no physical effort, because the geometry of the steering system of most bikes is designed in such a way that the front wheel has a strong tendency to steer in the direction of a lean. The actual torque the rider must apply to the handlebars to maintain a steady-state turn is a complex function of bike geometry, mass distribution, rider position, tire properties, turn radius, and forward speed. At low speeds, the steering torque necessary from the rider is usually negative, that is opposite the direction of the turn, even when the steering angle is in the direction of the turn. At higher speeds, the direction of the necessary input torque often becomes positive, that is in the same direction as the turn.[14]" Yet for me in the Sears Point carousel, I recall NOT having the front wheel/bars rotating toward the turn. Is my memory faulty, or am I correct - in which case, WHY? What forces have the front wheel pointing away from the turn DURING THE TURN be correct?
  3. I got into a heated discussion with a work colleague earlier today (perhaps the only person who didn't laugh when the music came on in my video at ) who didn't think it possible that you could hold a counter-steer during a turn. That is to say, while he believed in counter-steering to initiate the turn, he claimed that you would then have to at a minimum bring the handlebars back to neutral - if not actually turn slightly in the direction of the corner - in order to continue through the turn. My own "experimental evidence" was to the contrary, and I challenged him "as a scientist" to adapt his theories to evidence rather than insisting that his conception is correct. So... Can anyone explain WHY you might have the front wheel turned slightly away from the direction of your turn, and HOW that works?
  4. Funny Cobie - that seems to be EVERYONE'S reaction to my showing this to them: laughing when the music starts playing. Did you take a close look at the Credits at the end?
  5. I want to thank my coach Cobie and all of the great staff at California Superbike school for an incredible Level 3 day. I've finally managed to mix down my 5th session video into a highlights reel that I thought folks here might appreciate. See it at
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