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Summerville, SC
US
Edited Date/Time
6/5/2018 9:06pm
Weighting the pegs, looking ahead, etc.
The Shop
Grip with your knees.
Stand more.
Click up a gear and don't over rev the engine.
Be confident, but ride within your limits.
Don't do anything you aren't comfortable doing, it will come in time.
My advice find a good pro level rider who can spend some time working with you.
Have good rubber on the front.
You're welcome.
At 66 this is a tough one to get through my thick skull as it is not part and parcel to my muscle memory.........
Pit Row
Look ahead...no...even faaaaarther ahead. There ya go.
I wish someone would have told me to stop spending money making my bike more powerful or more shiney...and spend that money on good riding schools.
And I really wish someone would have shown me this video the day I first threw a leg over a bike (even though the internet didn't exist then...):
https://youtu.be/WEkHcAv3UYk
Set the bike up to be easier to ride. My full mod 250 two stroke hit hard and revved, but I couldn't hang on to it back in 2003. My current 250 2 stroke is set up easy to ride, but doesn't rev to the moon. Much easier to go faster on it and better technique helps too.
Take a good medical kit to the circuit and know how to do the cures of blows and wounds.
Somewhere I missed the thing about finishing your braking and moving the ball of the foot to the peg going through rutted turns.
After folding both feet under the pegs at different times with cheap ass "big 4" riding boots on, I had an apiphony
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