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It's on YouTube as well, in unabridged and abridged forms, if that's your preference. Twist Of The Wrist is required reading for all my buddies who want to get into bikes and ask me advice.
Tame your fear response- that’s what gets a lot of riders hurt and worse (panic breaking, etc) The Keith Code can save your life
A Twist of the Wrist Vol. 2: The Basics of High-Performance Motorcycle Riding https://www.amazon.com/dp/0965045021/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_9RKZ9DBZ2K3A930B1404
Hey man I hope you’re feeling ok. What I know about electric bikes is that they aren’t very different from motorcycles. So when you ride and turn you have to apply the same principles of controls. When turning you have first slow down before the turn and then lean into the turn. Do not under any circumstances accelerate more or brake while turning. You run the risk of losing traction and skidding. You have to maintain a steady speed when turning and when you have turned then you accelerate again. There are a lot of YouTube videos on this. There is also a great book called A Twist of the Wrist 2 by Keith Code. Even tho it’s about motorcycles the principles in the book apply to ebikes. Here’s the amazon linkA Twist of the Wrist Vol 2: The Basics of High Performance Motorcycle Riding
When it’s rainy you have to be even more careful how you accelerate, take turns and how you brake. You also have to watch out for potholes hidden by the rain and oil slicks left begins by cars. I recommend you don’t ride in the center of the lane when it’s raining, ride to the right or left of the lane where the car tires have traveled over the the rain. There will be less oil and better traction.
Rider needs to read 'A Twist of the Wrist II' and learn about apexing.
Outside - Inside - Outside
If you start on the inside, you have to make a much tighter turn.
In the bike world, Keith Code wrote the cornering bible, called Twist of the wrist II
It takes a lot of track techniques, breaks them down into small enough pieces that even I can understand.
In your experience is there anything similar in the car world?
Some excellent resources:
Full Control - translated from Norwegian. Free pdf here: https://motorcycleminds.org/virtuallibrary/ridersafety/Full%20Control_2013.pdf
Twist of the Wrist II - very popular book on how to ride: https://www.amazon.com/Twist-Wrist-Vol-High-Performance-Motorcycle/dp/0965045021
Roadcraft - this is the Uk Police rider’s handbook that we use in the training org I’m with. It’s less about the physics and technique of riding and more about where to position yourself to spot hazards. It’s part of why police riders crash a lot less than civilians. https://www.amazon.com/Motorcycle-Roadcraft-Police-Riders-Handbook-ebook/dp/B00O8SQ40A/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=roadcraft&qid=1627700405&sr=8-2
Don’t listen to them. Like, really - don’t.
Of course they mean well. However, that kind of negativity can cause a kind of target fixation in your brain which can then be projected it into reality.
Arm yourself with knowledge. Read books. If you have a local track, go as often as you can and talk to everyone. If you have a local street meetup spot, find the old guys on the exotics with the weathered leathers; ask them as many questions as they will tolerate; and always listen when they’re talking to whomever.
A couple of great books: A Twist of the Wrist and Proficient Motorcycle. The former especially for street riding.
Have fun and keep the rubber side down! 🤙🏍
This will help: A Twist of the Wrist Vol. 2: The Basics of High-Performance Motorcycle Riding https://www.amazon.com/dp/0965045021/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_HP8HPG9YVKWSEH8AYXPG
I'd be afraid of any off-brand bikes myself. IMHO, they aren't a lot cheaper than an equivalent well-established manufacturer, and the parts availability as well as the resale value is... poor.
I'm also an official Old Phart who thinks anything with a perimeter frame can't be a 'true' cafe, so shy of one of the more pricey 'retro' bikes, everything I can think of to suggest, (XS650, XT400/500, etc) really isn't going to work for someone who isn't a bit of a mechanic.
What I will do, is quote a friend of mine: "You aren't looking at the mantelpiece when you're stoking the fire." In other words, while we all want something that meets our esthetic when we look at it, you aren't going to be looking at it when you're riding. And it is after all, all about the ride. (Unless you're just going to hang out at *$'s all day long.) Have you considered a non-faired SV650? A Versys? The DRZ's and XL's are a hoot, and bad pavement is a non-issue. A slightly older GS500 or Ninja 500 might be a safe bet.
Also, please remember you're going to spend $500~$1000 on gear, and you really don't want to skimp on anything there. Even a simple 'oops' at 5MPH will mess up your knees if you're wearing jeans. And hand damage sucks. Take the MSF or it's equivalent, and get a copy of Twist of the Wrist II, Sport Riding Techniques by Nick Ienatsch, or Proficient Motorcycling by Hough.
Rant over, have fun. :)
In addition to the MSF and additional training, this should be required reading https://www.amazon.com/Twist-Wrist-Vol-High-Performance-Motorcycle/dp/0965045021
[](/raritynews)You're 100% wrong about what a front tire does, and you fail to give credit to how much work the rear tire performs. It's much, much more work than the front. If you were to rigidly weld up every moving point on a motorcycle, it could still turn. Here's a graph showing turning radius versus lean angle, with caster locked. If you feel inclined to do some reading, you can find quite a lot on Wikipedia (see the Equations of Motion section). The front tire locates the front of the bike, transfers load to the front for traction, relieves weight from the rear so it can stabilize the bike in turns, provides a base for braking and, at speed, initiates lean (which if you've leaned a bike, is the majority of steer). Rear tire does literally everything else, including pointing the bike through a corner. It's really a bad idea, but if you were to try cornering at a very high speed (requiring lots of lean angle), you would be able to control your corner exit position simply by rolling on and off the throttle, which, by changing the speed of the rear tire, points the bike where you want to go. It's a lot more complicated than you assume. [](/sp) [](/sbbook)You should pick up some nice physical books, too. Here's a good place to start learning (Twist of the Wrist II). For those that have the book, check out pages 7 (front/rear traction bias), 56 (steering affects stability), 57 ("Steering is definitely done for the throttle" (emphasis not mine)), 58 ("However, once the bike is fully leaned into a corner, the rear end steers the machine. The front end "turns" the bike or changes lean angle" (again, emphasis not mine)), 59 ("Once leaned over in a turn, the front end is no longer steering the bike: It helps stabilize it, but does not steer it"), 60... the whole book really. [](/sp) [](/sbstare)Road crown also varies wildly. Many, many roads here either have diminished crown or no crown at all. [](/sp) [](/twismile)Like I said, biased front tire wear may be related to location. I'll ask again since you apparently missed it: Where do you live? Here's a shot of my own front tire that I just recently changed out. The new tire has about 500 miles on it and already starting to show more wear on the right than the left. Everyone else here has extremely similar wear on their own front tires. With your own anecdote, I'm wondering if biased wear may be dependent on location. Let's start collecting data!
Body position appears to be to far upright and not inline with the bike, He is not looking through the corner, and when he starts to run wide (because of what happened above) he does not give it throttle and actually applies the brakes. It sounds backwards, but if you are running wide, rolling onto the throttle with give you more of a lean angle and cause you to start running less wide (counter-steer and friction on tires). When you roll off the throttle it has the same affect as hitting the brakes, it stands the bike up and starts running wide. Buy this book, torrent the PDF, or find the video, just read/watch it. This has helped me in the past, running wide throgh a corner into oncoming traffic, roll onto the throttle and the bike returns to your lane.
I thought it sounded a bit sarcastic the way I wrote it at the time, I told him he looks crossed up and riding like that is dangerous, he is a big boy he can do his own research if he wants to improve his riding.
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