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  • Technocrat
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    A few pics from my yesterday's ride to Lavasa.

    Pics taken by Captain Nandu Chitnis

    All shots were pan shots so please excuse a few blur images

    The RTR is really easy to throw around corners & curves

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    Originally Posted by killer
    A lot of people are getting the wrong idea about cornering, you dont want to scrape parts, thats not the fastest way around the corner. ref another post of mine http://www.xbhp.com/talkies/universa...1&postcount=18

    leaning just for the sake of it is pointless except maybe to look cool, you will still be passed by the other guy whos using correct body position to keep the Bike upright and is on the gas harder through the corner than you are coz he has more contact patch on his tires as a result of keeping the Bike as upright as possible.
    Lol so true There was this R15 rider who was leaning(body shifting with knees scraping the road) amazingly but after a few runs of his we figured he was going slower than me & my knee was hardly any close to the road.

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  • 'Santa
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    Originally posted by inder.cool View Post
    For a perfect lean of the body....just slightly tilt your bum[]...outside the bike....and then move your knee outside a bit(towards the road......dont exactly start scrapping the knee ... just try to get used to this kind of lean of the body )

    Well, i have experienced the same above points and found the results to be positive...!! hope it helps everyone..
    ++2 from me....

    IMO: the more you think during cornering, chances are more that you will goof up. Just try to go with the track flow...

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  • csgup1
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    Originally posted by prafultripathy View Post
    ^^ Man, that was informative!

    I will have to re-read it again to assimilate completely, btw the last pic is prolly better coz the bike handles so much better!
    hey . another thing i picked is you need to look further far ahead. i can se your eyes looking but if you turn your whole head it makes it a lot easier. the further ahead you look the slower things come at you

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  • HydBiker
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    gotta see how much we can put into practice on our highways...

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  • csgup1
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    thanks ,

    just make sure you are countersteering well i.e the second para before you move on to using your legs.

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  • Praful
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    ^^ Man, that was informative!

    I will have to re-read it again to assimilate completely, btw the last pic is prolly better coz the bike handles so much better!

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  • csgup1
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    dont worry about the knee mate. thats just a guide how much you are leaned over. its just another distraction. fun while you are doing it but thats about it. the last photo is probably the best one

    next time try push yourself all the way back on the seat and try to crouch down more towards the tank. lead with your inside elbow and try and get your head to the inside mirror. dont overdo it though . just make sure your arm and elbow is at 90 degrees so you can put all the force into pusing and pulling the handlebars and not pushing down on it.

    make sure the balls of your feet are on the pegs and load your pegs up so your body weight is on your legs. at the end of the day your legs should be sore not your upper body. hook your outside leg into the tank when going into the corner and try and press the bike down with it.do this with countersteering at the same time and you will be amazed at how light it will feel and just fall into the corner

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  • Praful
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    Originally posted by anirudh View Post
    You are actually not doing too bad if u look at those pics.... pic 1 & 2 you are just on the wrong racing line.... hence ur entry and exit is slow...apart from that u need to put ur body weight out a little more helping the bike steer faster.The picture might look awkward coz you are not putting ur knee out... apart fron this there isnt much of a mistake that ur making... after correcting that you just have to correct ur entry and exit points and be a little more aggressive to cut down the timing....iirc in the outing above u did cut down 10 secs on ur old time...
    Thanks for the tips dude!

    I could'nt get my knee out coz of the tight jeans, and bang on about the entry and exit point, really need to work on that till I can get it like clock work!

    Btw, I think I may have cut a lil bit more time, coz I remember not being timed on a session that I was really fast...

    And Man the RTR ROCKS!!!!

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  • anirudh
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    Originally posted by prafultripathy View Post
    HELP!
    You can see from the pics that I'm doing a lot of stuff wrong, but what all exactly?

    Not exactly interested in scraping my footpegs off, just want to take a corner faster!

    This is the first time I got to see my cornering pics.....







    This is a bit blurry!
    You are actually not doing too bad if u look at those pics.... pic 1 & 2 you are just on the wrong racing line.... hence ur entry and exit is slow...apart from that u need to put ur body weight out a little more helping the bike steer faster.The picture might look awkward coz you are not putting ur knee out... apart fron this there isnt much of a mistake that ur making... after correcting that you just have to correct ur entry and exit points and be a little more aggressive to cut down the timing....iirc in the outing above u did cut down 10 secs on ur old time...

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  • chicane1879
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    ^^+1

    Well, i have never been to tracks but from my usual "semi-aggressive" ways of tackling the corners i can tell that while tackling a corner you can tilt your body to the max but the tilt depends on how fast you are entering the corners.On-track one has to follow the S-I-F-O(Slow-in-fast-Out) theory but even if those slow-speeds on track are way faster than what we achieve on public roads.

    A caution:Never try the butt-hanging movements where you expect traffic, it would lead to serious consequences because that body position takes time to correct any errors(read: incoming traffic).I hope you got the point!!

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  • inder.cool
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    Well, Praful and Satish one piece of suggestion i can give is that.....for high speed of corenering....you both will have to make yourself lean rather than leaning the bike.....!!

    The after effects of this is that if you lean yourself then the bike automatically turns/leans towards that side...!!

    For a perfect lean of the body....just slightly tilt your bum[]...outside the bike....and then move your knee outside a bit(towards the road......dont exactly start scrapping the knee ... just try to get used to this kind of lean of the body )

    Well, i have experienced the same above points and found the results to be positive...!! hope it helps everyone..

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  • csgup1
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    make yourself look about 25-30 mtrs ahead . all the time . no 2 ways around it . practise when your are riding in a straight line as well and your soon form the new habit. also turn your whole head and neck to where you want to look not just your eyes. that helps a lot as welll

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  • onlinesatish
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    @csgup1

    Awesome bro!

    @praful

    Ur pic is better than mine bro...do u remember the arguement between us?


    Here's my cornoring pic. This was taken in Anathagiri hills g2g in apr by ravi@17bhp.

    I know am not leaning the way i should....but this was before i got know imp things in cornoring. after this i never got a chance to use wat i have learnt from this thread.

    Hmmm.......time to find some decent ghat section around hyd



    on sumit's zma...his front mag was a bit bend from the saddlesore. This was hell scary for me.





    Now if u look at all the pic you would have noticed me looking at the road in front say 5-10 feet instead of looking far away from it.....i hve this bad habit.

    Could anyone give me some tips to knock this habit off

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  • Aryan
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    Originally posted by csgup1 View Post
    heres a few
    This is some 'real' stuff! Awesome. Thanks for sharing. Would be great if you could kindly share what goes into this..

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  • csgup1
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    heres a few

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