Mastering Motorcycle Control - Three Tools for Precise Speed
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- čas přidán 1. 07. 2024
- When turning at slow speed, choosing and maintaining the correct speed is critical. Let's review the three tools a motorcycle rider has in their arsenal for this purpose.
0:00 Intro
0:36 Clutch
2:01 Throttle
4:39 Rear Brake
7:00 Summary - Auta a dopravní prostředky
Another great video. I have been watching your motorcycle control training videos and kept practicing in my local parking lot. Your detail explanation and advice helped me immensely to become a better rider. Thank you!
I cannot thank you enough for all of this content, especially the videos for short riders. I'm brand new to the motorcycle world and my endorsement class was the first time riding. I passed (yay!), but need a lot more practice before I will feel safe and confident riding on public roads. These video's have answered so many of the questions I had throughout my class and I'm so excited to go practice your tips in a parking lot! Thank you, thank you THANK YOU!!!!
Hi Melissa, congratulations and welcome to the riders family ❤. I’m glad you find this material helpful.
You do such a good job of explaining all this stuff. I find it extremely helpful as I begin to come back to riding after a 50 year hiatus. I have been surprised how little I retained. I feel nearly like a rank beginner. I am focused like a laser beam on this slow speed stuff for this first season back. I want to get to the place where the operation of the bike controls requires little conscious thought. I guess they call it muscle memory. When I get to that point I'll be able to relax a bit and not worry so much about dropping the bike or struggling with parking etc. I am lucky to live in Vermont where I have access to lovely rural riding outside my door and in the neighboring States of New Hampshire and Maine. I have almost zero need to ride in traffic and that makes riding much less stressful. I also drive a little roadster around these same areas. I feel very lucky to have all this right outside my door.
Thank you, Lana, That was another efficiently useful video. Please, keep continuing to make that kind of tutorial video.
Thanks so much. Gained a lot.
Excellently communicated, Lana. Thanks for the reminder that we all must work not only to improve but also to maintain our skills.
Still practice this after riding for almost a year. Feesl like I get better every time. Still considier myself a novice, but its true bike riding is something you need to practise continuously.
Thanks, Lana.
Great and practical content, I'd like to look both your channel and Motojitsu one, as he says "practice insane or get the same" :D. Thanks!
I would like to share a mistake that I made, just two days ago, so that others may learn. As a returning rider, I have been practicing slow speed manoeuvring in a local carpark. While
my abilities are certainly not up to Lana's, they are "reasonable". But I made a mistake, out in "the real world".
I slowed from highway speeds, down to nearly a stop, down shifting as my speed decreased. Once I was at a comfortable and very low speed, I initiated the turn. I was right in the "friction zone" of the clutch, or so I thought. As I hit the point in the turn at which time it was time to apply power, there was none. I was in neutral! I had missed the last gear change. The bike and I fell down unceremoniously, accompanied by the unintended rev bomb. This all happened in an instant.
The bike required a brake lever and mirror (fortunately not more!) and my right arm and hand left quite sore from the fall (yes, I was wearing the gear!). My ego? Still sore but I rode home.
Stupidly, it was the second time in a couple of weeks that I'd made the same mistake, but in the first instance, the bike was considerably more upright and I was able to stick a leg out.
While it might be hard to believe, it is the only two times that I have engaged neutral from second gear on this bike.
Obviously, I have learned from this experience. Practicing in carparks in low gear is essential practice. I've been doing that, religiously. In fact, I'm enjoying that as much as road riding, if not more. But when applying this out "in the real world", I've learned the hard way that it is of utmost importance to confirm that you have selected a gear and that you have power available.
I don't know whether my remedy will be to reference the neutral light, in future, or to come to a dead stop, and proceed from there, or whether I will apply some power before initiating the turn. I am most open to suggestions.
I hope my experience can raise an awareness amongst others.
Hi David, thank you so much for your story. You are absolutely right, sometimes we get into neutral when we think it's the 1st gear. Try picking up speed with clutch/throttle before you slow down to the minimum speed you need to keep balance, and before you initiate the turn. This will give you that half a second you need to realize what’s happening and push the shifter once more to force it into gear.
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Thanks so much
Hi Lana, thanks again for another great and clear lesson on speed control. I understood that you also had a bmw r 1250 rs. Are there any significant differences at slow speed manoeuvres in bike characteristics between your present bmw r 1250 gs and a bmw r 1250 rs? Thanks in advance for your answer.
Almost right: I had a 1200 RS. The main difference is the geometry of the front. The RS has more caster, making it less willing to turn, and less full lock turning angle, so the minimum turn radius is larger. Switching to the GS in these exercises felt like cheating.
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U will buy new gs1300?
Yes, I have one on order. However, the US is not getting them until next spring, so I'll have to wait.
And then, 1K miles later you'll need a New Clutch like the Police bikes 😂 Police officer gets a new clutch for free that would be the only difference.
mine has 12K miles now. I ride it like this all the time. No issues so far.
I had 108K on my 07 Harley Davidson never needed to replace the clutch or front brakes.
I'm at 45ish thousand miles on my 2020 vstrom 1050. I do a lot of slow speed work. I've even won a compilation. My clutch is still solid as a rock.
This may be true with a dry clutch, but wet clutches like the one in the R1250GS can tolerate controlled slipping at low speeds much better and last much longer.
I think you know very little about wet clutches. Training riding schools will have the same clutch throughout the 2-3 year of a motorcycles use period with thousands of hours intensive slow speed feathering by students. All. On. The. Same. Clutch.