Steering with loose arm
- Sit with slightly leaning forward and having both arms loose, never steer with tight arms hanging on the handle. – > loosen arm make control better, easier and more natural especially when cornering.
Progressive braking
- Learning to brake properly is very important in the slippery and fast speed condition. Here is a great video teaching about it. The main point is progressive braking
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdrR9EFNdqo
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLczVjowtf8(the best explanation)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiOGAYOXN8U
- Progressive braking will gradually load the weight to the front wheel resulting in increasing of friction which protect the wheel from slippage especially on the slippery road.
Riding on the slippery road
- Also, learning to drive properly on slippery condition is also very important. The key are “drive slower” with “smoother control“(more smooth brake and accelerating) and “don’t lean the bike when turning(cornering), always try to make the bike stay upright on the road surface“.
U-turn technique(counter steering)
- Another technique is called counter steering which will help shorten the u-turn radius.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LVSrs4HucI
- However, the real value of it is helping the rider lean to the side of turning without intermittent stop and put the foot down on the road.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhFEnjo7fz4
- The key is that leaning will help you turn with a much shorter radius.
Proper griping the handle bar
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMhk3dYzV70
- Don’t hold the brake and clutch bar with all four fingers.
Instead, you always need the ring finger and the pinkie as a hook to hold the handle bar, because when you are riding and incident a heavy bump, you still have a control over the motorcycle.
- Dangerous of riding motorcycle
Rearview mirrors
- Both mirrors should have slightly overlaping of view (around 1/4). This will shorten the time that you have to take a glimpse at the mirror(only one glimpse will give you all necessary information, no need to see both mirrors to gain all information which take a double or even a tripple of time and also more dangerous because of slower reaction times)
- The rear mirror view should cover the street line, which will play a crucial role in evaluating the distance of the rear cars. It should contain 1/3 of the sky and 2/3 of the street.
Handling
- ให้จับแฮนด์โดยให้แขนหย่อนเล็กน้อย(แขนเกือบตึง แต่หย่อนแขนลงมาหน่อย) หากหย่อนมากไปจะคุมรถไม่นิ่ง หากแขนตึงจะเลี้ยวไม่คล่องตัว หากแขนเกือบตึงจะยังคุมรถได้คล่องและรถยังนิ่ง ไม่ส่ายไปมาง่าย
Don’t lean and rolling the throttle at the same time
Better at bending road
- when enter the bending of road, decrease speed and brake slightly to transfer the weight to the front wheel which will make the steering more stable and safe
- Don’t accelerate before reach the apex, which is most bending part of road. Because the bike will lean so much at this time which make accelerating dangerous by slippage (by loss of grip of the leaning rear tire that can’t withstand the accelerating force) or overshoot the curve.
- Decrease the centric of mass by place your head lower will help lower the centric point of mass and decrease the lean angle which make the bike more safe in entering the bending road, especially in high speed.
- Increase the speed while turning will increase the bend radius
Decrease the speed while turning will decrease the bend radius
- After pass the apex, the bike will gradually stay more up right, this is the time to gradually open the throttle again.
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