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RE: [ST] Steering Article
- Subject: RE: [ST] Steering Article
- From: "Peckham ." <peckhammer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:33:07 -0800
>In fact a track day I attended (billed as an Advanced Street Riding
>class) taught using the lower body to influence steering. Hard for me to
>put
>into words but it went something like "doing the twist" with only your
>lower
>body while in the saddle.
Influence is not the same as control.
Depending on speed and objective (street vs. racing), you can be quite
effective with countersteering as your only input. Remaining very neutral
(body-wise) with good countersteering will suffice in amost all street
situations.
Other input, such as peg pressure, does have some effect. Some of these
inputs are just round-about ways of countersteering. Leaning causes the
frame and front end to move like a hinge -- which is the same action as
countersteering if you think about it -- although it is not as direct. If
you want to have quick and precise results, then countersteering with the
bars is the best route. IOW, the quickest way to change direction is with
countersteering.
Arguments can be made for peg pressure. I am a trials rider and a lot of
the steering is done with peg pressure. OTOH, while moving down a track on
an RS, which I have done, peg pressure with shifting of weight seems to make
abrupt counter steering less of a need. I have attended Codes School, as
well as CLASS (Reg Pridmore). Code is more pure countersteering and Reg is
more body input. I have found that a combination of the two approaches is
actually quite effective depending on the line you choose.
Code and Pridmore have very different lines. Code likes to go deep into
corners and give some serious countersteering input. It works. I've done
it like a Code Robot.
Pridmore likes to take shallower lines -- almost like race cars. This also
works, and I have done it. The interesting thing to me was that strong
countersteering inputs on Pridmore's lines are not effective. And, I would
assume that body inputs, sans strong countersteering inputs, on Code's lines
would be equally ineffective.
>--
Peckham
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