Motovudu: Las Artes Secretas de Pilotaje 14: MEDIA CURVA

half a bend as soon as the motorcycle is tilted to the maximum, relax your arms and hands. This not only allows your arms to rest, preventing them from rotating, but you will also avoid introducing unwanted movements to the handlebars, so the motorcycle will be more stable and you will allow the tires and the chassis does its job the less you move the handlebars the less chance of losing traction with the front tire if you have to press the handlebars to keep the bike leaning or to follow the line something is wrong this could be due to the configuration or the tires can sometimes be caused by using street tires that have a flatter profile to give more stability the following technique is one of the most difficult to teach some do it naturally while others simply do not understand it once you have decided to open the gas A little has to be dosed so gently that the bike stops losing speed but maintains the desired line at the correct speed.

You have to go fast but without going off the line. If you open the gas too much or too soon, you will go too far and lose the correct line and you will end up. It will take time at the exit. It can also be dangerous because you have the engine turning too high to use the engine braking when entering the curve and you will be at the limit of rear traction. When you are tracing with maximum inclination and high speed, you may notice that the wheel is moving. rear in this area it is important not to try to go faster you must keep the gas neutral neither accelerating nor losing speed and let the bike rotate the trick is to know when to open the gas a little neither too much nor too soon but not too late just open a little When I know that I am going to reach the curb on the inside of the curve, I have reduced the speed sufficiently once you have opened the throttle a little.

I hope to keep the gas constant, letting the bike turn close to the curb for a few more moments until You can lift the bike, open the gas hard and gain time exiting the curve by accelerating. If you open the gas too early or too hard, you will have to leave the bike tilted for longer and you will not be able to accelerate until too late. You also run the risk of going off the rails, as I always say no. It matters who gives gas first, it matters who can turn on the gas fully first, touching the knee.

One of the questions I get asked the most is about touching the knee, how much with how much force, when yes, and when not, touching the knee, it is not important to reduce the times, it is part of your personal style I use it as a reference and also as a safety net as a reference having your knee on the ground helps you calibrate the inclination of the motorcycle I don't carry a lot of weight on my knee I barely touch it I almost never have to change my knee pads While some pilots' ones smoke, it is, as I said, part of your particular safety net style.

The moment when it helps me keep my knee on the ground is when the steering is closed, so I carry as much weight as possible on my knee. trying to hold the bike until the front tire regains traction if you are braking with the front brake when the direction is closed it is almost impossible to save the situation without brakes yes you can recover but holding the bike with your knee is not something premeditated it is a reaction a reflex just like when you slip and manage not to fall. I have never hurt myself holding the motorcycle on my knee, but be careful with high curbs.

Some have told me that they have to lean back, not against the tank, in order to extend their knee further. I don't. I give importance to touching the knee it will happen accidentally when you start going fast concentrate on going fast which requires you to lean forward look at the styles of edu and one baileys and in mine it is very clear that we lean forward turning the body around the tank. I don't want to say that it is the only way, but it is something that works for us. Those who hang down a lot and stick their leg out as far as possible to touch the knee are artificially limiting the angle of the motorcycle.

The motorcycle will never turn optimally. If the inclination is limited in this way, well, I have been told that another reason for touching the knee is to put the knee in the ground on the inside of a curve and thus throw dirt and gravel on the person coming from behind. My hero and friend Maxwell is the He told me this and then he did it to me at the Dutch Grand Prix, there I was hiding behind the dome and laughing. I don't advise you to do this because you could catch your knee and fall off the bike, but as they say in races like in the love anything goes