That's a really good question. I never really thought about how to explain how I feel the grip and I think that you gave me an idea for a new video. This is my own opinion, but I think that feeling the grip comes from consistency in riding style, body position, and even staying with the same brand of tires. As long as all of these things are held relatively constant, you know how your bike is going to behave in certain situations such as braking and cornering. When you have a lot of laps under your belt and those three things above are pretty consistent then you develop that 'feel" you're asking about. Once you finally have a corner down, you know what that corner feels like (g-forces and what not), it becomes comfortable. After it becomes comfortable you can start to experiment little by little and once you get that rear end sliding around a few times you learn not to really react to it and just let the bike sort itself out. There is much more I can write about but I dont have the time, I have finals to study for but keep an eye out for a video I'm going to make on this topic. Thanks!
Yeah, I know its a tricky topic. I have been a fan of your riding/videos for a while now.. Sadly where I live in the UK we dont really have the opportunity to use karting tracks etc for bike practise, some places do but not my particular area. My current bikes a 640 Duke 2, I get what you mean, I would call myself amateur at competitive riding, never done a track day but have my fair share of fast road riding on twistys and understand a lot of technical stuff behind it, if you havnt I highly suggest reading RaceTechs motorcycle suspension bible, expanding my knowledge quite a bit on riding fast and understanding what the bikes saying. Thanks for the tips though, I will keep that in mind, was debating on changing to another set of tyres but I will keep my current instead since I know the feel well on them. Good luck man, I will do!
Dude your riding as aggressive as all jesus, I'm luvin it lol, bike is soundin great too .
No pipe life lol
Fonzy rr yeah that's a big part of riding, electric bikes will be shit lol
That's fine riding. Give it the noise. Nice.
Thanks friend!
Any tips on how you 'feel' the grip?
That's a really good question. I never really thought about how to explain how I feel the grip and I think that you gave me an idea for a new video. This is my own opinion, but I think that feeling the grip comes from consistency in riding style, body position, and even staying with the same brand of tires. As long as all of these things are held relatively constant, you know how your bike is going to behave in certain situations such as braking and cornering. When you have a lot of laps under your belt and those three things above are pretty consistent then you develop that 'feel" you're asking about. Once you finally have a corner down, you know what that corner feels like (g-forces and what not), it becomes comfortable. After it becomes comfortable you can start to experiment little by little and once you get that rear end sliding around a few times you learn not to really react to it and just let the bike sort itself out. There is much more I can write about but I dont have the time, I have finals to study for but keep an eye out for a video I'm going to make on this topic. Thanks!
Yeah, I know its a tricky topic. I have been a fan of your riding/videos for a while now.. Sadly where I live in the UK we dont really have the opportunity to use karting tracks etc for bike practise, some places do but not my particular area.
My current bikes a 640 Duke 2, I get what you mean, I would call myself amateur at competitive riding, never done a track day but have my fair share of fast road riding on twistys and understand a lot of technical stuff behind it, if you havnt I highly suggest reading RaceTechs motorcycle suspension bible, expanding my knowledge quite a bit on riding fast and understanding what the bikes saying.
Thanks for the tips though, I will keep that in mind, was debating on changing to another set of tyres but I will keep my current instead since I know the feel well on them.
Good luck man, I will do!