Proficient Motorcycling

[Dogma]

Does anyone who has ever spent five minutes on a bicycle need to be told this?

Yep. I came from mountain bikes and a lot of low speed maneuvering. The first motorcycle I tried to ride on the street felt incredibly heavy (just a 650) until I thought through this. Once I figured out what was going on, I switched my brain to "high-speed downhill" and my hands started steering correctly. I'm still practicing line adjustment in turns 3 seasons later.

[catbed]

just picked this book up, the updated and expanded version. it even came with a free CD!!!\\/\\/\\/\\/

[earlfor]

I have that book and some others. Very informative and useful information.
Its money well spent. :-)

Earl

[earlfor]

If you have a place to do it. "line adjustment" skills can be upgraded by finding an open, straight stretch of highway without traffic and practive weaving the dotted line at the speed limit. Start out weaving blocks of three line segments and work up to weaving between each one. Then, again....if
you have access to a place to do it you will need to find a long, flat, open curve without traffic and practice weaving the dotted lines while also turning through the curve. Eventually, you will be able to weave cones if they were placed center of your lane while negotiating a winding, uphill, downhill, twisty country road. Thats what I did to work on those skills.
Do it until it is a reflex action.

Earl

Yep. I came from mountain bikes and a lot of low speed maneuvering. The first motorcycle I tried to ride on the street felt incredibly heavy (just a 650) until I thought through this. Once I figured out what was going on, I switched my brain to "high-speed downhill" and my hands started steering correctly. I'm still practicing line adjustment in turns 3 seasons later.

[Dogma]

If you have a place to do it. "line adjustment" skills can be upgraded by finding an open, straight stretch of highway without traffic and practive weaving the dotted line at the speed limit. Start out weaving blocks of three line segments and work up to weaving between each one. Then, again....if
you have access to a place to do it you will need to find a long, flat, open curve without traffic and practice weaving the dotted lines while also turning through the curve. Eventually, you will be able to weave cones if they were placed center of your lane while negotiating a winding, uphill, downhill, twisty country road. Thats what I did to work on those skills.
Do it until it is a reflex action.

Earl

Good plan. Unfortunately, I have to go a long way to find such places. I get my best practice dodging holes on I-75 ramps. I plan to see what I can learn from the advanced rider course (if I can still get in this season) after rebuilding my brakes in a couple weeks.