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Cornerspin™ » Nov/Dec '09
Dirt bike experience makes you a better street rider, period. Spinning wheels, sideway slides, and gravel gremlins that so often cause panic on the pavement are par for the course for an off-road pilot....
Lee Parks’ Total Control Advanced Riding Clinic™ » Jan/Feb '09
Despite the old adage that "two heads are better than one," any rider who has ever attempted to negotiate a hairpin curve or sudden road hazard on a motorcycle burdened by a less than synchronized passenger can attest that there are indeed exceptions to this rule. In truth, the degree of harmony or dissonance between the minds and bodies of pilot and...
Ride Like a Pro » Jul/Aug '08
An often neglected motorcycle riding skill is fine low-speed control. You know, what we need to do in parking lots or on narrow streets where we have to make a U-turn in 20 feet. But due to lack of practice, most of us just aren't comfortable with these maneuvers and learning by trial and error is hard on the chrome and paint. So how does one acquire...
Sport Bike Track Time » May/Jun '08
You don't have to be someone like Nicky Hayden to enjoy the racetrack experience. In fact, competition is not even on the agenda with Sportbike Track Time. The enterprise isn't a racing school, or even a venue for racing preparation. The goal of this Ohio-based organization is to allow individuals the opportunity to participate in a quality, closed-course...
BMW Motorcycle Training Classes » Mar/Apr '08
Last fall, I was invited to join the BMW Motorcycles new on- and off-road training program for motorcyclists at the BMW Performance Center near Spartanburg, South Carolina. The facility, located behind the BMW manufacturing plant and used successfully by car drivers for many years, was recently expanded for motorcycle training. The off-road area is...
MotoVentures Training » Nov/Dec '06
Old hands will tell you that their experiences on dirt roads or tracks helped to make them better street riders. Many successful professional road racers got their start in the lowly dirt, learning to handle the vagaries of less than perfect traction and control their motorcycles in unusual attitudes and situations. But where, when you're ready to follow...
Streetmasters Motorcycle Workshops » Mar/Apr '06
If we're being completely honest with ourselves, we all can admit to occasionally feeling the need to apply our brakes in the middle of a corner, or to cross the center line to save a turn we entered into too hot, or too early. As we leave the offending arc behind, smirking at us in the rearview, the ego offers reassurances that this was purely a freak...
Kevin Schwantz Suzuki School » Nov/Dec '03
As I sit patiently waiting for the Kevin Schwantz Suzuki School to begin, I am struck that it's nothing like I imagined. Secretly expecting a group of die-hard squids and road racers with weird color hair, scuffed-up leathers and nose rings, I am pleasantly surprised to find that this is not so. My fellow classmates range from 26-year-old Seattle resident...
Kevin Schwantz Suzuki School - Riding Skills Series » Sept/Oct '03
The Line is something that racers, and even street riders who take their riding seriously, are forever looking for and striving to improve. At the Kevin Schwantz Suzuki School we don't believe that there is only one correct line. Watch videotapes of Schwantz throughout his career and you'll see he often made use of unconventional lines allowed by the...
Kevin Schwantz Suzuki School - Cornering Reference Points » Jul/Aug '03
As your speed through a given corner rises, it becomes increasingly more important to be precise with your cornering lines. If you're riding slow enough, any number of lines is acceptable and you have a relatively broad path measured in feet or even yards to choose from. But as the speed increases that line gets narrower and narrower. Whether you're...
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