To give you an idea of how much luxury u have, come down to MMSC and watch the moped race. They scrape the knees aboard a puny 45kgs bike and with a shittty 2.50 x 16 nylogrip rubber. Which was never meant to be a race tyre. It has no rounded profile too. They do it. They have no choice but to ride them, coz thats the only size and pattern available. Best part, they take curves pretty much flat out and these puny 65cc 2-stroke mopeds clock 100-105kmph on the straight. Some of the best bikes even clock 112kmph. Bloody fast for a moped and bloody loud too.
Your RTR rubber is 100 times better than what they have. Hope u got what I meant.

i dont know what expression i can use ...
thanks man .. ill surely try for it

@sam- To be honest I really don't know because I am mainly concentrating on getting my line right as I take the corner and ofcourse making sure there is no oncoming traffic. Will surely get back to you on this front after my next Lavasa trip

Riding tips from the legend himself.. might help


Also a very interesting article on "The Doctor" - http://bikeindia.in/news/IndustryBuzz/100-million-baby/

thankz for the encouragement
i do try it on some fly overs .. but not seriously ,,
ok man .. all the best

Hey man,
I cannot thank you enough for posting this VALE ALL THE WAY!!

Track practice

Originally posted by SAGARR_46 View Post

Hey man,
I cannot thank you enough for posting this VALE ALL THE WAY!!

More links to follow


Guys, Is anyone planning to hit MMSC track for practice?
I want to learn cornering (had a bad crash at the Dec `08 R15 championships). I guess hitting the track alone might not help in improving cornering.

As Joel put it, it is the rider that matters, not the compound. 'bad tyres' is more of a mental block at the back of the mind. The RTR can easily scrape its pegs with the stock tyres.
Riding and practicin at the MMSC track the best thing we bikers can do.

What about p150 ? Just have to change my Tyre ,im confused (Stock or others ?)

Cheers W

You need a good handling bike as well to do the right stuff on the track. The bike mentioned above is one of the lowsiest handler in the country. Ofcourse you can have a one-off track day but forget pushing it hard.

O ok
BTW what does it make a bad handling bike,like is it because of the riding position or the frame or what?. Just want to clear some doubts.Peace


W

From what ive felt while riding my dad's P150 vis-a-vis my Uni, it appears to be a chassis related issue.
It being the the 'all-over-the-place' sort of handling that it exhibits...

I missed this thread completely. Sorry for the late reply, but there are a few points I'd like to ask.

When I corner, I find early apexing easier for right hand turns (which I'm bad at. I find left turns easier). And in left hand turns I fint late apexing easier, and gassing my way out. Now the question is is it right to use two styles for the left and right cornering? Or should I keep one style for both? Because if there is a fast left-right succession of corners, and I early apex the left, I dont think I'll be able to late apex the upcoming right in time- correct?

Saw Killers awesome pictures, and a question popped up. I have an R15, so will leaning down closer to the tank and bubble help in going faster than when I'm slightly more upright? Also the throttle hand should stick with the knee in a left hand corner?

Also for a long sweeping corner, will talking the inside line be easier to go through fast, or taking a relatively outside line? I know on the inside line you travel the shortest distance compared to the outside line. But the inside line needs more bending/leaning/braking than just flowing through on the outside line right? So which one is correct?

Checkout my attempt...nothing much, but notice the road I am on



Any tips on how I'm doing it (except for the riding gear) welcome

Some action pics from last year....