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Summary: Learn the basics of riding a sportbike from an expert bike rider that has ridden many in this free biking video on sport bikes gear and tips.
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Chad Torres Chad Torres has been a target shooter and gun expert for over 10 years. read more
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Questions & AnswersHi, my name is Chad and I’m going to talk a little bit more about sport bikes. I’m going to cover riding basics. A motorcycle- any motorcycle, but especially a sport bike- is controlled by your body position on your bike. Because sport bikes are made to handle very quickly- turn left, turn right, make transitions- it’s much more important that your inputs are correct, whereas on different bikes, they don’t really respond much. Basically, a bike turns through two major inputs. One, where your body position is. If you want to turn right you body right, if you want to turn left, you move your body left. You lean, it causes the bike to lean, it causes it to turn. Just as importantly, actually probably more importantly and critical is your inputs on your handlebars. When you want to turn right on motorcycles, counter-intuitively, you don’t actually turn the wheel to go right, you actually press it. You turn the wheel slightly to the left. That breaks the gyroscopic effect of the front tire a lot and makes the bike actually fall the way-turn the way- opposite the direction you turn the handle bars. So if you want to turn right, you push on the right bars. If you want to turn left you push on the left bars. It causes the bike to turn along with the movement of your body. Because it’s so important and that input is so critical and turns the bike so quickly, a sportsbike is ridden with the knees on the tank, holding on to the tank. Your hands should actually be pretty loose and your arms should be pretty much completely relaxed, because any input you put on the handlebars causes the bike to want to turn one way or the other. So the body is actually sat upon the seat-knees holding here- leaning forward, holding onto the handlebars- but loosely so you can push inputs. You also move your body forward and backwards on a bike. Forward when you’re going into a corner; it puts weight on the front tire, makes it turn faster. When you’re coming out of a corner, generally you will scoot yourself back in the seat in order to put traction on the back tire as you’re giving it throttle. So you can grab and bite and it’ll go. But that’s the essentials of a sport bike; there’s a lot of movement, it’s all in body movement. Forward, backward in seat, left to right, and pressing left and right with the handle bars to make it turn. So it’s critical that a bike fit you for that reason and that those fundamentals are understood to make the bike do what it was built to do which is handle really well, really fast.
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