welcome back to mOTO 360. It's 6:30 a.m. and on the road for about an hour
heading out to the ridge Motorsports Park near Shelton Washington the rainy
day we're hoping to get a little bit of dry pavement today I'm taking you to
work this is what I get to do for a living and today my goal is to help save
slide we've got 30 riders coming out and it keeps them how to make sure they get
through every corner every time over 50% of all motorcycle fatalities nationwide
are single vehicles in a corner which means that's it a job for killing
herself so the good news is that means we also have full control of it there's
absolutely no reason that's ever be out we're going to keep them out of your
predicted cornering we're going to not talk about all the entry they packed
access focus on the apex you're focusing on the exit is on the street we only get
to a border sometimes one time in our lifetime we've got to get it right every
time
traditional training whether it's in the classroom or whether it's on the track
they talk about a technique they talk about whether you need an early apex or
mid a tensor ladies and I to me that's antiquated it's
completely out of line and left you're on a race track the whole since we're
talking about street strategies we're going to be teaching these guys how to
use exits homes we talked about early early exit latex if it exits and how
that determines the turn point and the apex is strictly a byproduct of where
that turn point that exit is towards the track uh-huh
the gate to lock wait too long we have no classroom or have no generator we
have no waivers and we have 30 riders that's it we're kind of hitting a
critical mass here without medical support here they've got to have a date
down wrong and I know you confirmed on Wednesday obviously if you know the gate
lock and we can't get a hold of anybody we can fit on the side classrooms open
but right now let's just get the gate open get these guys in and get the day
going all right thank you all right well good news is somebody's on their way
their gate guy isn't coming but we have somebody else coming he just needs about
30 minutes delay let's get the gate open call me on when you talk about apex it
comes from the racetrack on the racetrack you know every corner you know
what's in the back side of the corner you know the rules that everybody is
playing by and you can pick the perfect line what's the problem with going out
on public roads you don't know what's on the other side right and it may be the
only time you see that in that corner in your entire life
you have to get it right every single time so that's what we're going to do
today is change the way you read corners and the way you think about corners
yes
we're going around the group on the first jewel here and this is what we're
doing we're coming in tight on the inside of the corner we set our speed
nice and early as we go through the corner pouchy inside cone we just add
throttle and as we add throttle it pulls the bike out and that pushes our line to
the outside edge we hold that outside edge which is now the inside or pita
drills as we come around
and we drive all the way out really quite look out here today so we'll go to
the inside here we go as we lean through we add bottle and then we go back to the
inside of course I've lost most of my group is not uncommon for the first time
we want to focus on the vanishing point how many of you were able to attach a
vanishing point to your throttle how do you still struggling to find the
vanishing point it's difficult to find the uphills that's one of the first
places you can recognize the vanishing point and your acceleration your
rotation speed should match how fast that vanishing point runs away up here
it's a very sharp turn so as soon as you turn the vantage point is gone to run
away from some of these others when you come around it actually plays very very
very slowly if you tilt in very very slow and you roll in very very slow do
you always match that that's your guide point when you start getting above the
vanishing point you start picking up treetops when you start looking at
signage and all these other things to go along with it
now you're seeing well beyond the badge point you're looking two three four
quarters ahead you're going through a valley and your skin and the other side
of the valley you've already wind up bikers is you're not going to get for
another mile if it gives you more information the more it makes me happy
the less you have to process later exactly so you upset the bike that press
that counter-steer that input upsets the bike we're trying to share with you
tools that maybe you hadn't been using before again these subtle speed
adjustments to make fine adjustments to the line and to do it without upsetting
the bike that's what this very exercise is all about
what a fantastic day turned out to be at a rough start between the weather
robbing the good boss this morning so we couldn't get in but the track came
through for us and they made the day better so when it came through for us
and it dried out as the day went on the guys or the guys were outstanding they
were able with the punches with us they had a great time they learned a lot we
caught him smart cornering Stan mark to just relax and throttle so I would say
usually successful for me just another day in the office this was wonderful
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