[Body Position - Twist? Motogp Examples]

Here are three advantages to being square (not crossed up) on the bike:

 

1) Having your body parallel to the bike gets more of your weight down and to the inside of the bike. Keith mentioned

this too and this is the primary reason to hang off in the first place. Riders who cross up lose some or all of this

advantage.

 

2) When you are crossed up, your hips rotate around the tank. This forces your outside knee off the side of the tank

and prevents you from using your knee against the tank as an anchor. Most riders can't fiind a substitute for that

very critical anchor and end up latching onto the bars because they feel like they're about to fall off.

 

3) If you are going around a right-hand corner and you cross up, your body is rotating to the left. In order to look into the

corner (to the right), you need a neck like an owl.

 

 

 

4) those old sportbike riders like me can get their excess frontal protruberance (that's belly to you boys) off to one side of the tank. As a BAB of one year (27 yrs off) it works for me and keeps my body square. Still probably no excuse not to lose those extra 40lbs tho!