is it windy at the moment?
usually it doesn't seem windy when i leave work (balwyn) but once i hit the geelong freeway its extra windy.
Yep. And the partly foggy air ensures that if the rain wasn't enough, your glasses damping will produce excitement enough for the day ['where tf am I going']. I don't trust cars not to leave oil & was riding like a wimp through the corners today... j
i ride like that every day just more so on wet days. not yet confident enough to corner fast and leaning hard, after 1 year on my l's riding 5 days a week 1 hour to work 1 hour back . maybe need a track day or course or something to get the confidence up.
Would definitely recommend doing a course. Superbikeschool level 1 was great for learning about how to corner safely. I did my first one in the wet, which was good as I was paranoid to the level of being a hazard to myself before - I was treating it like cycling on ice back home in Norway. I found I could safely lean a fair bit more than I thought... although, in traffic, having a huge safety margin is always a good thing. Day 2 on the superbikeschool, in the dry, made me corner like nothing before Followed up by a SAFE cone navigating 'track day' at Sandown, I feel reasonably confident in dry cornering. However, I haven't done a course for some time and would probably benefit greatly from doing another one. j
u just need to realise that bikes lean over and come back up...its what they do...really...thousands of times a day...like my first ride in a speedway car (v8 sprint sedan...not slow!), pretty scared till i realised that these things do this alla time...then it was ok, 80 mph at a concrete wall, then suddenly turn left...repeat...and again, cue vehicles ramming u an stuff Rubbin's Racin depends on yr definition of 'leaning hard'...as in...OMG my tyres are not scrubbed to the edge, i am not leaning hard <<< thats ok as in...OMG that fella on a goldwing just rode round the outside of me and buggered off <<< u r probably not leaning hard enuf
