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Dylan Code

Superbike School Riding Coach
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  1. Just read a little further in Twist II and your answer will be there: You get the gas on at the earliest possible moment in a corner. This does not mean at the apex, right before the apex or right after the apex, or at any particular part of the turn, it means as soon as possible. To meet the throttle standard, steering is completed before you start to get it on.
  2. Of the tracks that we go to currently: Barber in Alabama. Phillip Island in Australia.
  3. If students are doing the exercise, we tell them to use the brakes if they are in too fast but many find they get in too slow when doing it.
  4. Sonoma. More technical, more variety. Ride Laguna if you never have before because it's a bucket list item.
  5. At steep leans, you simply can't support the majority of your body weight with your inside leg.
  6. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Pressing on the peg will push back at you with the same pressure you give it. The side with less mass move more--that's the rider. He pushes himself away from the corner. Training riders by campfire stories and what they heard other people talk about is what keeps a good school in business.
  7. CSS coach Mike Pesicka used to work for Dave Moss and is a great source of data. Corner him at a school and he will answer your questions. DC
  8. Regarding the quick turn, let's consider a car: go into a turn in a car at a spirited pace and turn the wheel in very sloooowly. See what you get. You get the same thing on a motorcycle if you lean it in very slowly.
  9. I'm not used to hearing a tire groan, but I often hear the change in RPM when the bike is leaned. Maybe you are hearing that... One one hand you say the "tires are working much harder when quick turning the bike" and on the other you say: "I believe you must load the front tire to get maximum turning." Don't get discouraged because Keith says in Twist 2: Pg. 59 For steering, you want weight on the front to get that “bite and turn” action. From this perspective, you can get on the gas too early, before the bike has finished getting the extra turning advantage from the loaded front. Pg. 59 Weight on the front end helps the bike “hook” into turns. Getting on the gas too early starts the bike on a constant radius arc before you get it pointed.
  10. Your devil's advocate points are well taken. However the quick turn technique is presented to the classes as "turn as quickly as possible for the demands of the situation". A sloooooow turn in requires more lean angle and therefore is less safe. I'm going to be honest and say that it seems you are trolling... If your post is sincere, my apologies.
  11. The bike is not leaned over all the way in the photo. If the pegs were lower, they would provide less available lean angle. Also a heavier rider with more cornering force would lower the bike's ride height and make the pegs hit easier, not to mention what bumps would do to the suspension. I hope I understood your question correctly.
  12. Looks like Lorenzo does something similar to what you see in the video.
  13. No I would not say that. I would say that it's best to lock on with your outside knee, which we see most riders doing. Do what's comfortable with the inside leg: dangle, on peg, knee to tank, knee swung out, etc.
  14. Not for me. It's speculation at this point. All I can say is it would change the location of the combined C of G for a slightly more favorable orientation while trailing in (more upright), but the advantage being very slight.
  15. I suppose the "dangling foot" riders have pretty much thrown a big curve at the people who consider weighting the inside peg as useful.
  16. Ah jeez. That's tough to specifically answer because I think it will vary depending on corner type, bike type, rider fit to bike, tank grips or not, and the list goes on. When I was on track at Willow yesterday I paid attention to the amount of weight I was supporting with my inside leg and there definitely was weight being supported but I would not say it was a significant amount. I would say more than "light" and less than "moderate" as a very rough, vague and useless description. I would agree that you would have better feel with a more relaxed leg, though bar feel would be far more important. Zero lean would be less weight than leaned, for certain.
  17. No problem. We are learning more and more as we go and I'm very happy to discuss.
  18. I have other videos of people riding and they have more blinks and eye movements.
  19. I don't think the foot will do any support. With any weight, the foot would be suddenly pulled back and hurt considerably. On the body position list, I think Keith is working on a published version. Not sure when he will have it ready but it's in the works.
  20. Good observations. Firstly if I was on a MotoGP bike, I'm pretty sure my position would be different than on an S1000. How it would be different I don't know but I do know that it is different on a very small GP style Moriwaki when I have the chance to ride them. These variations in riding style really tell us one important thing: there are options. It also shows that riders connect to the bikes in different ways but the overall posture is similar for nearly all GP riders. When talking riding position you have to consider the variables: rider's body size, rider's inherent style, bike size, bike proportions, bike shape (tank, seat), footpeg size/grip/profile/width, and the list goes on. Body position should be guided by things like comfort, stability and good joint alignment where possible. Keith came up with a list called the "57 Elements of Body Position" that addresses virtually all aspects of a rider's position on the bike. Angle of foot is just one facet that also has a chain reaction with the other parts of the body if changed--which could be positive or negative depending on the rider's current body position package. Regarding the variations of leg dangling with the MotoGP riders--we see Lorenzo not doing it, Rossi -the inventor- doing it less, and just about everyone else doing it here and there. No one really understands its relative usefulness and that includes me. All I know is it changes the center of mass very slightly and that may be enough to help under hard braking at lap record pace.
  21. Yes, I trail the brakes in most corners. I usually release fully by about 1/2 way down to my eventual lean for that particular turn.
  22. This is a photo from me riding that weekend and my typical body position.
  23. It's a habit I got into early on. Maybe it had something to do with the little GP bikes I rode when I was a pesky teenager. Have a look at this picture of Marc Marquez and tell me what you see there.
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