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Motorcycle riders have the same issue. On a sportbike, if you enter a turn and your radius is not tight enough you will exit pavement before the road/track stra
by athenot 12y ago
Motorcycle riders have the same issue. On a sportbike, if you enter a turn and your radius is not tight enough you will exit pavement before the road/track straightens.
Human instinct is to slow down, but on a bike this will have the effect of widening your turn radius—totally counterproductive. To tighten the turn radius, you need to accelerate and lean in (which you can do unless you're already dragging a knee).
- codyb 12y agoI'm sure there are a million examples but I find snowboarding very similar. If you're going too fast the instinct is to lean back but that makes it extremely hard to turn into the mountain, but if you lean forward you can take the weight off the back foot and whip it over to turn into the mountain and weave some of the speed off. Or when you're on ice and you really want to turn but just have to keep going straight until you hit a patch where you'll get some grip from the mountain cover.
- erobbins 12y agoyeah, I learned this very quickly when I started skiing.. lean back when you feel like you're going too fast and it's out of control time. I overcame that instinct very quickly!