Times change!

But ROSSI seems to go on and on and on... LOL!!

Marquez is a jump forward , but he might get hurt doing it.

The same on 2019!

Jonathan Vogel thats what he is doing. Pushing the bike and himself pass the limit to get better. Without crashing you will never know how far you and the bike can go. Ofcourse that dont apply to us except if you got all the money in the world you can crash the most expensive vehicle in the world and it wouldnt even hurt

I thought that first said "Four Stages of Booty Position"

yeah same here. I was at a sports bike store and someone told me about this

vetiarvind I normally downshift setting up for the corner so that I'm in the right gear to accelerate out of the corner. This helps straighten the bike back up smoothly.

+vetiarvind Unless your bike is extremely powerful, you will need to downshift to make up for any loss of speed during the turn But more importantly, TO have the ability to accelerate out of the turn, which is needed to get back into the upright position.

+Survival Pax Oh boy. Yet another person who thinks dragging the clutch on a downshift means engine braking. Engine braking occurs simply through releasing the throttle and maximized at closed throttle. i.e. vacuum slowing you down

Depends on the corner. But the circumference of the outside of the tire is smaller than the middle. The result is when leaned over your engine rpm increases. If you want to take advantage of this fact use a higher gear. Maybe if the corner is really tight and the drive portion is towards the center of the tire perhaps youd want a lower gear to maximize your drive. But if the drive is on the edge of the tire and its like a sweeper youd be better off in a higher gear. 7 years late but hope this helps anyone

+Veggietative Except this guy can ride.

+SoCalDualSport He probably hits less women too

+corey anthony If the bike is at a very shallow angle with the road in the turn, especially if you're grinding the inside peg WITH your toes on the foot peg, then it's likely your body position is messed up. Most inexperienced riders might tip the bike in heavily onto the outer edge of the tyre, but forget to shift their weight off the bike. What this looks like (from the front) is heavily tipped-in angle, with your upper body and ass still in line with the windscreen and tank. This means the bike leans right down, grinds a peg and can low-side the bike. It happens cos of little grip on the edge of the tyre, with all your centrifugal weight pushing onto that small area, its easy to fall. The trick is to dip the inside elbow and shoulder (and knee) into the turn, at the same time as having your whole inside ass-cheek hanging off the seat into the corner. What does this do???? Well, by having your body overhanging, it allows a tighter corner, but WITHOUT the need of the bike needing to be leant over at such an exaggerated angle. So while it feels odd to feel 'outside of the bike', it won't lean over so much, meaning the tyres will grip better because the bike grips with a BIGGER contact patch on the larger part of the tyre. Sounds odd but it works. Doing this will mean you won't grind pegs because the BIKE isn't angled so close to the road, but YOUR BODY will be closer to the asphalt. Go back to where you see Nicky Hayden (#69) hanging off the bike in a corner. He himself is closer to the ground, but his bike sits a little more upright, making it corner with more grip, but your bodyweight pulls it tighter through the turn. That's what you want, and this will prevent peg-dragging without the (unnecessary) cost of adjustable rearsets. NEVER modify a bike before you analyse your technique. Hope this is understandable. Failing that, buy or KZfaq Keith Code's "A twist of the wrist". Cheers

+Ryong Choi Standard rear sets never cause a problem if your body position and riding technique is correct. Adjustable rearsets are more for comfort. Peg-dragging means he's leaning the bike over far too much to get him through the turn. Leaning off the bike allows the bike to corner harder but with the bike at a lesser lean angle, meaning better grip and no dragging of the peg. I wrote this in greater detail below for Corey

Twist of the wrist

Twist of the wrist

Twist of the wrist

+AC oh yea.twist of the wrist 2 thanks ..i used to like to forward this video to new riders..it saves lives

Dennis de los Ríos Oakes too soft suspension maybe?

Ill look in to that, thanks

you don't have to corner always like that, when you take it easy you don't have to move around like that.

hovering is a bit too much..a firm grim with out squeezing. You might come into trouble if your are resting your upper body thoe.

i finally rode my first sport bike ever. a street triple. i have back pain if i dont grip the tank with my legs when breaking. so far not so bad. i can ride an hour before i need the urge to rest a little bit, but is fine, im not going to be track rat. i hope my back gets stronger ( and my leg grip too) and thanks guys

see those bikes have an aggressive position, I can't do more then an hour on a 1000cc for a daily too much power and not to mention the back as well. I'm a kinda long, I ride an fz6n w/ fz1 handle bars to raise it up a bit. but good luck on the track, looking to upgrade and eventually do track

No, not a firm grip. Better to have a very soft and relaxed grip with the hands. Hold the bike with the legs not the arms/hands. you will have better control that way.

Supernova12034 indeed man

yackawaytube That's not even for racing.. This guy says incorrect things, like at 3:50 when he says that you move your body while braking which is absolutely not what you wanna do (on track we set our body THEN we brake). That's for guys who wants to think they ride fast only, racers and cruisers aren't concerned ;)

. . . bend in it.

'...bend...you do not want to make your arm straight' I didn't get it at first either.

I think he means its balanced if you stay centered. If your forward on the bars you take up suspension travel

As he also says, it makes you lighter in the seat. Yes you still have the same weight pressed down through the back of the bike, but your calves, thighs and core tense a bit when pressing the balls of your feet into the pegs.. You notice this you can hover your butt just off the seat this way and move a bit more freely, so basically your legs take some of the work off the suspension. The opposite would be planting your heals and butt and having weight also on the bars, you are a solid, stiff mass on the bike and the suspension takes 100% of that. "Light in the seat" as they say using the balls of your feet and legs squeezing the tank takes work off the suspension by your legs suspending/absorbing some of your weight. It's much harder to explain but very easy to feel on the bike. It is really easy to test by going over some speed bumps with all your weight on your butt vs through your core, thighs and calfs pressed into your pegs with the balls of your feet. I bet motorcross riders spend 99% of the time with a majority of their weight not even in the seat.

Practice, roundabouts are great practice for this.

+Mevlinous going the same direction or how?

+Aziz Thegreat well in Australia with our lane on the left, you get a nice quick right to left change as you go through the roundabout where you can practice going side to side. If you haven't already, check out the California superbike school video teaching the "knee to knee", basically helps you switch side to side while remaining stable.

+Aziz Thegreat juz go full throttle and say ur prayers

Realistically if you're not on a track it's best to find a section of decent rideable road in your area with multiple curves in different directions and practice your body positioning and braking/downshifting, get comfortable with the curves on that road and increase speed and lean angle as your ability improves. Practice.

+vetiarvind your moving everything else around...have to move feet too.

brianmathew09 i saw some comment that said the modern riding technique involves keeping your foot in place

+vetiarvind If wish shift gears mid corner when doing this type of thing think need go back to step 1 half the (dudes) go and pay for this new wonder riding can be left far behind by old school in slow out fast riding by a experienced fat old man just sits on the thing and counter steers and lets his ass/knees do the work then rolls on and keeps on the power

+vetiarvind I wouldn't recommend getting advice from the comments section of a youtube video.

+Tyler Olmstead you got that right! 10% good and 90% complete bollx

why please?

Aerodynamics and stability, but it also keeps some of the weight off of your hands & wrists

+Carlos Pinto Advice; there's a difference between watching and doing. Trying some of this stuff especially on a public road without prior track practice and you will likely do it wrong with severe consequences. Good technique takes practice. It doesn't just happen. On a track, there are few dangers of hitting dangerous objects like trees, walls or oncoming traffic. Learn these techniques on a track and you will become a MUCH safer rider on the roads. After numerous track days I'm now much safer on the roads than I used to be, but tidier and faster. BUT - the day you get cocky and think you know it all is the day you come unstuck. If you ever stop learning on a bike it's time to give up.