Good form vs bad form - photos

[Slide Panda]

Spent the day tuning my suspension with Dave Moss and I worked on different BP.

Lucky you. I'd like to spend and afternoon chatting with him

[$Lindz$]

Lucky you. I'd like to spend and afternoon chatting with him

No kidding. He's so awesome.

[Triple J]

Looking good. 

I'm jealous you can ride in nice sunny weather this time of year!

[manwithgun]

Spent the day tuning my suspension with Dave Moss and I worked on different BP.

Top is my "normal" which is pretty open into the corner.

And bottom is what I ended up doing for most of the day. Lower and more tucked

BUTTONWILLOW!!!   I make the beast with two backsing love that place.  I would think that riding "open into the corner" is how you should be riding while trying to sort out a track's character (morning session) and probably carries over to the streets as well;  it's less committed and allows easier mid-corner line changes.  Once you've got the track figured out and a time to chop down, raise your level of commitment and go banzai (bottom).  Looks like natural progression to me. 

You gonna post up any footage?  Here's an ass-cam from last year on an S2R800 before they repaved Cotton Corners.  You get a few less punches to the scrotum nowadays.






 

[$Lindz$]

The GoPro was my friend's I think I f*cked up turning it on/off everytime, cuz he hasn't come back to me with any footy. Haha.

I'll bring my own next time.

[Triple J]

Newly discovered photo from the endurance race this past September:

[shamoo]

My one and only picture someone got of me.  I'm still new to riding a sport tourer (used to be a sportbike rider).  How do I look?  Probably a bad angle to critique.  I'm am off the seat.

[Triple J]

Doesn't look too bad shamoo.   Hard to tell from the picture, but looks like you might be a bit crossed up with your upper body still over the tank judging from your outside arm angle. That's a hard angle to tell though.

That road looks very nice!  

[shamoo]

Doesn't look too bad shamoo.   Hard to tell from the picture, but looks like you might be a bit crossed up with your upper body still over the tank judging from your outside arm angle. That's a hard angle to tell though.

That road looks very nice!  

Thank you sir!  This was GMR (Glendora Mountain Road) in California.  My friends recently took me there.  I'm originally from the East Coast, so I don't know much around here yet.

Good observation on my outside arm, I didn't think about that.  Question, what does it mean when you guys talk about "screwdriver hands"? 

[Triple J]

Good observation on my outside arm, I didn't think about that.  Question, what does it mean when you guys talk about "screwdriver hands"? 

Think about how your wrist is angled when you work a screwdriver...bent to the outside of your arm. When you have good body position, your wrist on the inside of the corner should be similar. To get this bend you have to be nice and loose, and not have a death grip on the bar.

Paying attention to the outside arm is helpful to me for getting body position right. It should be loose, and laying on the tank.

All this is easier to do on the track than street though. I'm always too worried about gravel, cops, cagers, etc. on the street to ride hard...hence my butt is almost always pretty close to the middle of the seat on street rides!

[Slide Panda]

Think about how your wrist is angled when you work a screwdriver...bent to the outside of your arm.

Screwdrivers and shovels.

As TripleJ noted, how do you hold a screw driver? Not perpendicular to your forearm, like a bat, but in-line with it so you have the ability to rotate using your forearm, not just the flexion of your wrist. 

The shovels bit is easier to see on someone riding supermoto or flat track, but does translate to sport bikes as well. how do you shovel or work a hay fork? One arm out stright-ish the other, bent with the elbow up like so:

[shamoo]

Got it.  Thanks guys.  Much clearer now.  For some reason, I had good form on my R6, but on the Monster I'm still nervous.  I think I have a combination of death grip and non-screwdriver hands right now. 

[$Lindz$]

Triple J: looking good man! Hope the weather turns for you soon so you can get back on the track.

Here was my last day at Chuckwalla about 2 weeks ago. I worked on handle bar position and it was my first day with warmers so I was loving the ability to push straight away and not spend 2+ laps warming up tires! Haha. I also installed my RCS19 master cylinder and shwoooo. Love it.

[b.]

My second track day ever with the biggest changes to the bike since the first being stickier tires and adjustable rear sets.  Definitely enjoyed the added grip from the tires and foot pegs!

I focused on resting my outside arm on the tank, which I was not doing previously.  From the pics, I see that I could get my ass off the seat more as well.

Critique away!...

[Slide Panda]

I'd say one change you could work at is getting that inside arm more like so:



- see how it's out and he's able to operate the throttle by rotating the forearm vs flexing the wrist?

And looks like you could bring yoru whole body a bit more to the inside of center.

$Lindz$?