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How confident are you when cornering?

Personally I feel more confident mostly on left handers. Depends on the road and traffic though. On a left hander your line of sight/apex isnt obscured by oncoming traffic while on right handers, especially a busy road, oncoming traffic can obscure the corner and whats immediately ahead, plus the fact your leaning into the traffic with arics and buses and **** coming towards you can be offputting and a lot of the time the camber is all wrong for right handers. Maybe the throttle hand being in a more awkward position as amentioned earlier has something to do with it too….never really thought about that before but maybe its a factor!
Newelly……that link!! Jeezuz. What was that guy doing!?!? Not even an attempt to make the corner? Scary **** indeed!!
 
Of course if you come off on a right hand bend you are probably going to hit something very hard, a mate of mine was killed two years ago after losing control on a right hand bend, however come off on a left hand bend and you are going to meet oncoming traffic.
****,why do we do this?
 
That's why most lefters put me off. But then there are some cool
One ways onto/off the midlands expressway by the looks of it.
How about a best bends thread?
 
Ok all The wife is from Finland & finds LEFTS are her best but she is good on the rights as well.

Me i find my RIGHT are my best but ok on the LEFT.

We ride GODS road (mid wales) all the time it's 22 miles top to bottom or bottom to top & has every bend you can think of.
What we did was ride it for a good few months most weekend to get to know it as best we can. Then we worked on our cornering it did help out. So find a good bit of road you like ride it get to know it & work on your cornering.

Have fun
 
Melvich to Bettyhill 17 miles. Empty.
Melvich to Ullapool 110 miles. Empty.
Summer : short and unpredictable.
Winter : Get the fire on!
Conclusion : Awsome in season.
There is a bunkhouse made out of an old mill here which is dead good
If anyone fancies a trip out. Google Cornmill Bunkhouse.
Probably a couple of weeks left of good grip.
 
LOVE all bends . The tuo/factory with Dun/sportsmarts is unbelievable!! Cant get me 955i speed triple anywhere near it!
 
As I get older, I am more confident on both sides (always used to be lefts though)

Cant wait till I get really old, I will be a cornering god.

Newer bikes & modern rubber has a lot to do with this increased confidence, I think.
 
After two right hander off`s in the last year (wrote of my 1050 speed triple and severly bent my gixxer :crazy)I constantly get the feeling the front is washing out on right handers that make me realy slow cornering on rights.Yes I know its me and I know I have to harden the **** up and deal with it :lol.Has anyone any ideas to combat this feeling ? silly answers will receive my mother in law through the post,sensible answers will receive my wife via red star parcels,I know they are pretty bad prizes,but I have been trying to shift the pair of them for years :thumbup


Gloin`the shut the **** up you two,nagging in sterio is just wrong`
 
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Gloin said:
After two right hander off`s in the last year (wrote of my 1050 speed triple and severly bent my gixxer :crazy)I constantly get the feeling the front is washing out on right handers that make me realy slow cornering on rights.Yes I know its me and I know I have to harden the **** up and deal with it :lol.Has anyone any ideas to combat this feeling ? silly answers will receive my mother in law through the post,sensible answers will receive my wife via red star parcels,I know they are pretty bad prizes,but I have been trying to shift the pair of them for years :thumbup


Gloin`the shut the **** up you two,nagging in sterio is just wrong`
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Might be worth mentioning front end suspension set up, how many rings you got showing on top the front fork adjusters, should be around 5.
 
trickymicky6 said:
Might be worth mentioning front end suspension set up, how many rings you got showing on top the front fork adjusters, should be around 5.
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Now that tricky's won the wife I'd say too that your fronts setup to hard. Get it done by a pro, mine was pushing on slow corners and mini roundabouts. Griff had a look on at my service and softened it up a lot.
Also try and keep a constant throttle through the bend as the engine braking also puts more pressure on the tyre.
 
Just got back in after 5hrs riding,My lack of confidence on right handers is pretty much cured,Two lads I was out with said "your in the middle keep up or ****** else",as they are both massive lads in 2 para(i served with their dads in the 80s) I aint gonna argue :bitchslap,Well the upshot is it was me not the bike,the factory handles like a dream and corners better than I ever will :grinning,and I`m bloody glad they helped me overcome the mental block or whatever it was,not had so much fun in ages and feel back to my old self again.


Gloin `the not quite as much a riding wimp today`


P.S tricky let me have an address and you can have the wife and the mil,please please send me an address :cheers
 

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