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really looking for some cheap sharkskins and elka shock. thanks

plan on taking level 2 at midohio this year. i don't remember seeing the lean bike in action last year. from the description it seems like that would really help me get comfortable leaned over. if it is not used please tell me which class in the ohio area uses it. thanks

I think turn in points may be a problem, but it's not present all the time. sometimes i start the turn too early. i think my biggest problem is corner entry speed. not that i'm going to fast to start the turn, but i think that by the end of the turn i'll be going to fast. so this makes me enter very slow, then i finish it and i'm like, I suck i could have took that way better. Then on corners i know i can flick the bike right over and i'm smiling the whole time. no SR's there, not tense, not worrying about whats right in front of me, looking through the turn having a blast.

First i'd like to say that i had a blast at the school and plan on doing level 2 next year. BUT, I have the same problems that did when i went to the school. I didn't expect after 1 day to be a cornering pro, but when i left there that day i felt like i had this cornering problem licked. I did level 1 at mid-ohio a month or so ago. By the middle of the second session i was looking through the turns and doing great. no roll-offs of the throttle. i was riding better than i ever imagined, got my knee down for the the 1st time, almost no anxiety about entry speed or ability to complete the turn. just having a blast. Then i get home and ride the twisties and i have the same problems i had before, like i never even went to the class. Now i confused as to if the class actually helped me a great deal, or did it just help me get familiar with a few turns so that i was able to push myself and go faster. if you ride the same road over and over again then you will bump it up to the next level little by little. I think that's what happened to me. I was riding yesterday with some buddies and there this set of 20mph turns and i was just uncomfortable. I knew that i could get through them quick but all my SR's told me to take it easy even though i wanted to blast through them. i guess i want to know how do i take every corner like the ones at the school or am i gonna have to just learn every road to be comfortable?