Paging Mr Eaton...

I have your sodding teddy bear...

Giving it a little squeeze.. oh well, perhaps it'll go away now I'm riding a
bit more.

 

Is this the braking into corners regardless of requirement?
If so, I appear to have it too.

 

Yes, though in fairness I'm rolling off the throttle unncessesarily - I
haven't quite got to the stage of frantic lever pulling, but the effect is
the same - unsettled bike, unsettled me and miles slower then I need to be.

Oh well, I'll just start talking to myself again, that worked the last time.

 

Woohoo! I passed it on!

EXORCISED!

 

dwb wrote:

Indeed. For some reason, on the bandit, I have some sort of aversion to
the outer 2/3rds of the lane I'm in. ie I'm finding it difficult to ride
by the kerb or on the white lines whilst going round corners.

Naturally, bad lineage and too much throttle without the bollocks to
fully tip in, is causing brake lever squeezage.

Depends on the content I suppose

 

In

Are your parents aware of this?


--
Steve Parry

http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

K100RS SE
F650
(not forgetting the SK90PY)

 

heh.

 

<bites tongue>

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, dwb

I was wondering where he'd got to.

You need to go and see that nice Mr Corden, you do.

 

Whatever floats your boat ;-)

 

Indeed, though I think riding the bike more then once in a blue moon would
help too.

 

When I took myself to task for bad lines in corners I slowed down, rode
in really deep into the corner and tried to kep a constant distance
from the kerb. It was odd the first few times because I kept looking
at the kerb, not where I was going to go. Then it was odd because it
felt like I was riding at the kerb but not looking where I was going,
and so was having to guess when to turn in.

On top of that, you feel like were easing into a corner, whereas now
you're wrestling the bike down and up much faster. After a few more
goes it all got a bit easier.

By taking it to that extreme I found I was much more confident with
riding slightly deeper into a corner, and thus not cutting the apex too
much (or at all) with head/bike.

 

Christofire wrote:

Check. But then I find I get no better, cos bad lines are easy at slow
speed.

Target fixation and I work well :/

I also have this subliminal feeling that by being so close to the kerb
I'm not giving myself any room for error/correction. ie if (and I /know/
it's unlikely, but that doesn't help) the front slipped out, it's only
got a couple of inches to hit the kerb. In the middle of the lane it's
got a couple of foot. Doesn't mean I can recover a front slide, just
that I've got more room to cock it up.

YES! precisely. Currently at my own pace, I'm smooth at bad lines.
In order to do lines better, I become unsmooth.

I suspect "few" is a relative value.

Aye, I'll just keep plodding along, I'm in no hurry to be fast, just
better. I just wonder whether I actually progress whilst on my own or not.

Roundabouts is a good example of not progressing, I take the shortest
route across an empty roundabout. You know, almost straightlineing
across the edge. I really must get back into the habit of going round
properly, cos I know it'll help me get used to flicking the bandit
around. And yet, can I sodding well remember this whilst riding?

 

<cue foghorn symphony>

 

That's the thing though , I don't use the brakes [1]- I just use the
throttle but I still do it unncessarily.

Now the lights/temperatures [2] improved, fancy doing a few runs on a
summers evening?

There are a couple of other UKRM'ers in range as it were as well.



[1] unless stopping/needing to stop.
[2] a bit- it was still bloody cold the other night

 

okay - are you still in Maidenhead, or is it Wokingham now?

I think Ogden's in Maidenhead, Oldbloke's in Bicester [1], there's some
other chap in Oxford and some other chap also in Didcot[2]

Anyone else?

[1] Assuming he hasn't blinded/maimed himself again.
[2] they might be difficult to organise as I don't know who they are.

 

B481 out of Reading, left on to the A4130, right on to B480.

Can then either take the B4009 north towards the A40 and Postcombe or you
take the B480 until it joins
the A329 and either again take the A40 or go all the way up to Thame.

 

AND FREEDOM