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thanks for the input guys, I'll revise it accordingly (1.3-leaning vs traction & 3.3 road signage) and share it among my friends, but I will not include trail braking in this articles as it's mostly for beginner reference I still believe weighting inside peg is much easier than weighting outside peg & pressing outside leg to the tank side at the same time trail braking are also mostly for the track guy. beside, it's easier to set the desire speed at corner entry and crack the throttle open ASAP once motorcycle turned into corner. I include clutchless upshift/downshift because it's easy to learn and can be done on straight up position

After a while riding motorcycle (since 2011), and reading a few book/article related to motorcycle riding techniques, this is what I understand about motorcycle and how I handle it. Please comment and revise words i'm using as English is my second language

just my guess: 1. into the turn too early 2. accelerate in the middle of corner 3. no effort to hang off 4. no effort to extend his knee (inside corner) 5. not lock onto the bike firmly correct me if i'm wrong

yup, it's clearly the same idea from both of you, i'll do some plan (drawing) just like both of you 2 advise and work it out whenever I have chance to spend my time for practice sometimes this weekend. I do still have trauma on this turn as I used to spill after hitting the inside curb (slightly higher than road surface) of those second apex..result of no riding plan and and thought it's just another constant radius turn.

that does make sense for faster accelerate out of turn

OK, back on track where I practice, there's also decrease turn radius, which I call it TURN X in pic below: direction are indicate by black arrow, my plan to ride this turn is get to 1st turn point (red dot), and from there try to get the straightest line with consistent speed, and get ready for second turn point (also red dot). haven't try this plan yet as I haven't had a chance to go to track this few weeks, but would you guys think this will be best bet for this decrease turn?

thanks for the inputs everyone, and yes BLSJDS, i'll remember that - more lean angle, less throttle

riding on the road we're not familiar with, where the turn hidden behind the hill and decrease, is it safe to do more counter steering to compensate with decrease turn? or is it any other way to handle this situation?

will go to track tomorrow for practice

thanks for your input and link.. will try it out those bridgestone for next change

some nut even drive their car in this track and spin it around..

that track open for public every weekend, closed on weekday unless there's any organisation (cubprix, gokart, private group) request to use the track. It's belong to local municipal and maintained by them, no coach provided by them but there's club around here like Kart race and motorcub (moped) race sometimes training or arrange some competition in this track with their own coach and rider/racer. I normally visit track on Sunday with few of my fellas as it's open to everyone. No fee and so on, it's free. This track built specifically for kart race but since not much respond from local people around here on gokart, they decided to open it for motorcycle race as well detail info about that track: http://www.miriresortcity.com/go_kart

thanks for your input Carey. I do have a copy of TOTW II as well, which I bought it before I found DVD version (ordered it a week before I get DVD). I'm going to get myself another book; Soft Science of Road Racing Motorcycles. Even though i'm not a racer but I think to read all articles wrote by you guys especially our cornering guru, Keith Code, is something precious... something I should not miss. I still have a lot to learn and even you can see from the picture that my body still very stiff on the bike. i'll keep reading and practicing.. and yeah, I do let my motorcycle group member know your existent that track are open for public every Sunday and it's FREE (thank to our local municipal) Cheers Andy

I always thought entry corner braking is a must before as it's even discovered in your TOTWII video. but after reading this article, I definitely agree and understand more about braking (which you translate as crutch).. will apply this NO BRAKE into my riding habit to improve myself. Thanks a lot

hello to all senior in here, is any of you currently put on this Shinko tire on your bike? I would like to hear you guys opinion regarding this tire from personal experience. I myself currently had shinko 011 verge radial on my bike but my friend convince me to try out some bridgestone tire (003, 16, 23) as according to him it will be better for cornering (he never have experience shinko tire anyway). so far I really have any issue with this shinko tire in tight cornering even for knee dragging, but I do spilled my bike twice and both is during braking on wet (rainy day) road surface. so I really want to know either should I follow his advise or should I stick with this shinko brand as i'm about to replace it with new one soon.