tdelegram
Control Rider
You can practice every day on your drive to work. Envision your apex. Your turn in point. Force yourself to scan ahead and look back. Where do you want to put that car tire? There's the white line at the edge of the road and that one specific edge piece of pavement that's missing. Like a pot hole, just at the very edge of the pavement. How close can you get to it without driving off the road? I aim to put the center of the tread right at the edge of that pot hole - enough to know I hit the apex, but not too far that I put the tire off the road. Driving out of the curvy road, I imagine the steering wheel is my lean angle. Driving hard out of the apex, trading my lean angle (steering wheel) points for acceleration points. Feeling the car drift wide, as any car/bike will do when getting hard on the gas.
Or am I the only one that drives like I'm riding a bike? LOL
You will be amazed at how quickly it becomes habit. Instead of just going brain dead for as you make the same boring drive to work every day, work on things that will transition to the track. You'll be that much more refined and can then work on other things. Do you stab the brakes in your car? If you do, I would bet you do the same on your bike. Those are subconscious muscle habits. Train them to be better. Working on them while not at the track means there's that much more you can focus on once you're back at the track. Ride bicycles? Same deal. Smooth application of the brakes. Note I said smooth - not slow. Most definitely a difference. But taking things at half speed allows you to really hone those skills in, and you'll find the speed will come naturally without trying. And you'll crash a hell of a lot less in the process...
John, is that how you ride the short bus too?
See you at Pit and NJMP.
