Helpful. Informative. Well delivered. Excellent insight, the foot positioning on pegs is such an integral part of riding and so important to get right.
Videos with this type of format stand so much above all others. No bullshit intros or presentations, just start giving me informations from the get go. I like it
Your green screen is so good I forgot it was a digital set until you spread your arms! Your lighting job is so good too, the light coming from the right matches perfectly that of the background! Cheers :)
Mike! That was extremely helpful as always! However to keep it even more interesting I have a pretty precise question for you. The concept is related to weight distribution over the contact points of our body on the bike. Here’s the question: Considering our body weight being 100%, what is the ideal percentage of our body weight on each contact point when cornering at the apex? (example for a right curve: 40% right foot, 10% left foot, 20% seat, 20% right thigh on the tank, 10% hands). Perhaps removing a bit of weight from the seat would help suspensions to work better? I hope this can be an interesting topic , maybe for a video as well, and thank you a lot for your work!!
With this kinda content! 1Mil subs is not a long way🔥🔥🔥🙌🙌🙌 Great explanation 💓💓💓 today I learnt from you, the foot work that i needed to improve myself 💯🔥🔥
Street-Sport rider here.. Bandit 12 w flat "drag" bars, trimmed-down seat and good suspension. For many years, when I find myself in some tight, scary situation where I REALLY need to have maximum control, I'll immediately scoot all the way forward against the tank; loading my weight over the front end. F*** the Rear; control the FRONT! Somehow this makes me feel better... but I'm not 100% sure if this is truly optimal for dire situations. Am I fooling myself?
I got in a wreck a few months ago and im having a hard time getting mentally back to the place I was. Can you make a video of how to rebuild confidence (on the bike) after a wreck?
that's a bit too much info, and this is coming from a guy that (somehow) get's onto masturbatory regimes with people and they all accept it as the norm (for some reason)
Can you do a video on how to smoothly match revs while braking. I have struggled to do it for a long time. I find it hard to apply constant brakes while blipping the throttle.
One question for the hard braking. I understand why you should be loose on the handle Bars and it gives me a much better feeling in the corners. But when I'm braking a bit harder I often squish my man parts against the tank. Are you still light on the handlebar even when you are braking hard?
The reason you should be loose on the handlebars is to allow the bike to stabilize itself. If you hang on the handlebars you are effectively in a wrestling contest with the bike, and your steering input will be much less efficient, and you have to use more force, making you less precise. The interesting part about this is that your steering input needs most precision at the turn-in point of the corner; and when does this turn-in happen? Usually when you are hard on the brakes! Thus; You should be holding the handle bars like you are holding two baby chicks, even during hard braking, this will allow you to precisely control your motorcycles trajectory. Practise clenching your knees to the tank. Also work on your ab-, quads & back muscles, so you can stabilize yourself. Having a weak core is one reason for not being able to stabilize yourself on the bike.
Especially when braking hard, you should be light on your grip. To achieve that, squize the tank firmly with your knees. A test they do on riding lessons is to have you brake hard using only one hand on the handlebars, and the motorcycle needs to keep a straigh line. Only way to do this is to always firmly grip the tank with your legs!! Otherwise as he said, you are putting unneccesary input on the handlebars.
I've scrolled through the comments to find peoples answers to your questions about body position, the only ones I've found have different answers. If your going to ask a question and ask people to answer it, assuming there is a right answer perhaps after a prescribed amount of time you should give the correct answer and pin it.
Hi Mikael, I see that you have a Tuono as well. Can you do a video on body position for naked bikes. I've had both supermotos before and sport bikes, but never a naked and I'm confused to whether you are supposed to ride it like a supermoto where you push the bike to the ground and remain upright, or ride it like a supersport where you lean your body off the bike? Thanks,
how come, my friends told me that bicycles and motorcycles is the same, I just bought my motorcycle last week, and now I feel that its different riding a motorcycle. Its hard for me to drive In the roads, I feel afraid of motor crashing rather than bicycles. Can u give some advice for me to gain some confidence and for me to upgrade my balancing skills? sorry for my grammar, Love from the Philippines.
soooooo, been a year and seems like the whole comment section still couldnt agree on the first positon being long left or tight left my first guess was tight left but after having thought about it again, the greater speed results in a greater lean angle resulting in knee dragging, so i came to the conclusion that that one guy down there was right, its a long left thats my opinion and im still kinda split
I'd love to see a Video of you riding Slow Mode through an entire Track Lap or on a Twisty Road . I practise my cornering here in Southern California at a place called "The Snake" in the Malibu Canyons just above a famous biker's Cafe called "The Rock". Do you know where it is?
Hi bro, when i move my body to the out side my motorcycle gets unbalanced because of my bosy weith shifting. How you can move to side to side keeping the motorcycle balanced? What muscle do you use? Do you push with your the outside peg to move you body to inside? Thank for the answer
Hey, i got a question. How much did you spend on your SV650 tot get it like that. I'd like to go track riding and eventually racing in the Belgian Open Championship. I want to get an idea for a budget. Thanks anyway
On the SV my feet sit very comfortable and any movement is free of bike contact, my issues is on the cbr600rr, my back heel is always in contact with the rear shock and sometimes when leaning towards the left especially I hit the rear shock and have to move the foot forward while leaned and it messes up my line , how do I resolve this????
when at high speed and i want to do a snap turn, do i have to remember "press left-lean left-go left"? because it feels very uncomfortable to try to reach further than my fully extended arms? especially with my left hand. in motogp i don't see racers move their arms at all, they just use their body.
I have a question. Maybe somebody can answer it. when Im leaning into the corner is it okay to have most of my weight on the inside peg? Or is that a bad thing... when I wanted to "hang" on the bike and put my weight on the outiside footpeg in a corner I didnt feel a good connection with the bike and was afraid of faaling off. Once I put it on the inside peg I felt a better connection with the bike and could relax my arms a lot more and just hold myself with the legs. Is that okay or is there some secrect tip? Thanks.
Question: regarding foot positioning at the midpart of the foot, this then make it so that I can't reach the rear brake or the shifter. If I have any significant weight on my foot, I can't move it. So I tend to ride most of the time with the foot peg under the arch of my foot. Is the idea that one should be constantly moving the feet to where they are necessary? I can see in a single lap that I'd be moving my feet all the time!
There are a lot of variables here: How you are built, distance from saddle to pegs, distance from saddle to handle bars, how strong and flexible you are... etc. If you can have your foot in one spot and move around on the bike to: brake, chicane shuffle, hard turn, fast turn... then that is great, as the less you move around your feet, the more stable you and the bike will be. However, if you are not following the line which you want to take, I.e. You can't get the bike to go where you want it, you should try moving your feet around to help you with positioning your body. Driving a bike fast is always going to be dependent on a lot of variables, so there is never one simple answer to 'How you should ride'.
I found this shift cam video that I thought shows how much one can be moving around on the foot pegs. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PBzb78SdjZw.html
Hey thanks for the tips this intranet thing is really cool,italian humor,no serious this good stuff,for the clueless Joe that just jumps on a sport bike and thinks that it easy peasy,God I hate that phrase,nice job and thanks for helping out the masses,now if they would only listen to instructions,we'd have world piece,JK piece out...thanks again...
I’d explain the difference in foot position for your inside and outside foot as they are different and can really add to your stability on the bike during cornering.
I cannot understand the majority of of this video - closed captions would be great! It sounds like he has some great pointers - sorry I can't understand what he is saying. Thanks
jhedges19 yes. Sv650. Sv650 is cheap, light and good torque. Sv650 is a great starter track bike. 600ss are more expensive for newer bikes and require higher rpm for torque to exit corners.
You dont have the same tire width, so no, you cannot achieve lean angles you see on supersport videos. It also depends on the tire compound, a softer much grippier tire will give you more room to lean, but less lean than a big bikes' tire, because of width!
It depends on the tire spec. 180/55/17 vs 180/50/17. You want the middle number bigger. People can still corner hard/knee drag on 250 bikes because the tires are more round than stock. Touring bikes tires are like flat wide ,where sport bike is like half circle.
when at high speed, do we have to remember "press left-lean left-go left"? because it feels very uncomfortable to try to reach further than my fully extended arms? especially with my left hand
yeah, but it cannot be yours, so chop off some next time you see a hand laying around and plant it on your seat. Now, seriously. it depends on the situation. closer to the tank when you ride slow, farther to the back when you ride fast, and fist-lenght in between those two previously mentioned.
