Interesting discussion! You know, I have had the occasion of the rear sliding on the exits of corners on the track. I really never got real surprised and followed through on my throttle control. On the CCS ?slide bike? I was able to do long slides (when I say long, I mean to the point where the instructor said I should do them smaller) to my left. Going to my right, I could not get the thing to break loose. I finally did but I had the bike at 10,000 RPM in doing so. The bikes power came on faster than my throttle control, that along with other issues, caused me to high-side. Flying is cool but I found that I suck at sticking the landings. I hit my melon hard enough that my learning sort of ended at that point.
The moral of the story for me is that a person best have their body position just right, be really smooth and on something with a peaky power band you may want to not be on the edge of that either :-)
I wish I could have learned more from the experience by not crashing or even by having the instructors talk to me about what went wrong (it?s hard to talk to a guy who is stumbling around in circles). I still feel like riding that training tool was a big learning experience and there is no better place to make a mistake like that than on a skid pad with a bike on outriggers!
