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When you guys are riding (and more so when you're riding hard) how do you place your feet?
When I first started riding I read a bunch of articles about body positioning to try and get myself into good postion early. That way I wouldn't have to unlearn bad habits. The main one I went by said to get up on the balls of your feet, bum ever so slightly off the seat, so that the bike could move freely beneath you and soak up any roughness.
Trying that out, I loved it. It felt exactly how I imagined it would and I could really bury my inside foot with weight and get my upper body up and over. I feel very comfortable cornering like this.
Then I watched other people ride. Noobs, weekend warriors, MotoGP etc. the full spectrum. Almost everyone rides with their arch on the pegs. I thought to myself that I was doing something wrong if everyone else was doing it some other way. So I decided to try it out.
Nervous. That's the best way to describe how I feel entering a corner with my arch on the peg. I can't seem to get any weight on the peg and I tense up instead of hanging off/keeping my body in sync with the bike. Now I haven't had a 'proper' ride trying this style, just the few fun corners on the way home from work, but I can't figure out why it's so different to me.
I understand why you would want to be on your arch; easy acces to foot controls. When I'm on the balls of my feet I need to re-position to use the rear brake or change gears. In my riding experience there hasn't been too many times where I've gotten into some WOT action after a corner (I like my money and my licence) but on the track would be completely different.
So, how do you guys do it? When you first learnt to corner hard, where did you learn, what did you try, when did it click?
When I first started riding I read a bunch of articles about body positioning to try and get myself into good postion early. That way I wouldn't have to unlearn bad habits. The main one I went by said to get up on the balls of your feet, bum ever so slightly off the seat, so that the bike could move freely beneath you and soak up any roughness.
Trying that out, I loved it. It felt exactly how I imagined it would and I could really bury my inside foot with weight and get my upper body up and over. I feel very comfortable cornering like this.
Then I watched other people ride. Noobs, weekend warriors, MotoGP etc. the full spectrum. Almost everyone rides with their arch on the pegs. I thought to myself that I was doing something wrong if everyone else was doing it some other way. So I decided to try it out.
Nervous. That's the best way to describe how I feel entering a corner with my arch on the peg. I can't seem to get any weight on the peg and I tense up instead of hanging off/keeping my body in sync with the bike. Now I haven't had a 'proper' ride trying this style, just the few fun corners on the way home from work, but I can't figure out why it's so different to me.
I understand why you would want to be on your arch; easy acces to foot controls. When I'm on the balls of my feet I need to re-position to use the rear brake or change gears. In my riding experience there hasn't been too many times where I've gotten into some WOT action after a corner (I like my money and my licence) but on the track would be completely different.
So, how do you guys do it? When you first learnt to corner hard, where did you learn, what did you try, when did it click?