+1.. This one's a must.
My favorite is: "Many riders spend thousands on suspension components to try and achieve perfect handling on their bikes. What many people fail to realize, is that learning smooth throttle control is the BEST suspension mod you could ever do..." -Keith Code
Seems like the two main things that keep coming up (just worded slightly different) are visual skills/situational awareness and smooth throttle control. I like this quote by Keith and it reminded me of a funny situation I encountered when I was working with a student at Barber Motorsports Park. The student kept complaining that he was bottoming out the suspension and scraping his foot peg going into turn two and that he needed a stiffer spring and needed to make suspension changes and needed a new bike and needed to loose weight and on and on and on, but what I was seeing him do was delay getting on the gas in the turn, he was just coasting, which meant that all the weight was on the front and none was being transferred to the back of the bike. I finally convinced him to just work on rolling on the gas as soon as possible in the turn and he finally admitted (Sheepishly) that he didn't bottom out or scrape the footpegs when he got on the gas early in the turn. I told him he had just done a suspension modification on the fly
Of course, there are some times when you do need to change up your suspension but a lot of times, as mentioned, good throttle control, is the best (and easiest) mod you can make.
Misti
