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Anyone noticed how over the past 2-3 seasons motocross style is infiltrating how they ride those Moto GP monster bikes.
It seemed like Rossi started it with the inside leading leg going into a corner at 120mph+, but why are they doing it?
There's no way they could dab a foot down to right themselves at that speed. Is it to keep their weight forward and inside the bike's centre of gravity, to weight the tyres more?
What's your thought's?
It seemed like Rossi started it with the inside leading leg going into a corner at 120mph+, but why are they doing it?
There's no way they could dab a foot down to right themselves at that speed. Is it to keep their weight forward and inside the bike's centre of gravity, to weight the tyres more?
What's your thought's?
At every press conference, in every interview, in fact just about any time Valentino Rossi answers questions in public, the same question comes up again and again: "Why do you stick your leg out when you're braking for a corner?" And every time, Rossi shrugs and explains that he doesn't really know; "it just feels natural to do" is the answer he usually gives.
The move - taking his foot of the footpeg, dangling it as if almost preparing to slide it on the ground dirt-track style, before finally picking it up and putting it back on the footpeg, ready to help tip the bike into the corner - has become Rossi's trademark, but he is no longer alone in his leg waving. One by one, the rest of the grid have taken on the move, and it has spread to riders in every class, from MotoGP to 125s to World Supersport. First Marco Melandri and Loris Capirossi followed Rossi's example, then Max Biaggi, then the current generation of Dani Pedrosa, Casey Stoner and Jorge Lorenzo. Now, just about everyone is doing it, all the way down to club racers.
Source: http://motomatters.com/opinion/2009/07/22/the_truth_behind_the_rossi_leg_wave.html
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Everyone wants to be like The Doctor!
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I also notice Nicky and Ben don't do it.
And how do the use it (guys with legs out) going into right hand corners?
This is from personal experience not theory.
When you see the rear smoking going in it is from down shifting and running out of slipper clutch.
Most of the time under extreme braking you tuck the front to the inside of turn or the side the foot is out on. I really don't understand the idea of making it turn in better. My bike is stupid quick on turn in and moto gp setups have to be better unless they are making the bike more stable at speed and giving up some turn in.
leg thing all of the above - also to reposition his foot on the peg!!!
Pure guess work on my part, but I always thought Val's instinctively adjusting the center of gravity to what feels right to him as he lines up the turn. The leg is never out actually in the turn, just setting up the line. Plus it screws with the competion big time.
I ride like Nicky and Ben slide in and steer with the rear........I never had the fancy traction control. Truth be told I haven't been on a race track in a race since 1992. Track days, well, different story, although it's been a few years for that as well.
Pit Row
Rossi kills it!
Slipper clutches, along with the back tire basically off the ground in hard braking are two things at play here. Hard back braking is not.
Speedway riders (dirttrack) use the leg for balance,even tough their wheels are out of line as they are sliding it's essential to counterbalance as they are on a fine line too with the handlingof the bike
When he first came into ama 600 supersport racing he was side ways all the time, same when he first got into moto gp. Then he said he realized it wasn't the fast way to do it and now comes in more straight.
But I have yet to see him throw it out flat track style.
Styles have certainly changed over the years in road racing, from the tucked in hardly moving around style to the modern day animated riders moving all over their machines!
Question:
Who do you think has the best style in today's crop of Moto GP riders?
Can't wait for GP to go back to the big bikes. They need to ditch Traction control to!
Can't imagine makes that much difference... but Im not gonna argue with Valentino Rossi etc!
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