Άν σου κάτσει, κράτα σταθερό γκάζι και σήκωσέ τη μηχανή -κάνε προπόνηση καλύτερα στο να καταλαβαίνεις ακριβώς πότε έχασες πρόσφυση και να διορθώνεις αναλόγως. Οι απότομες κινήσεις και οι αντιδράσεις επιβίωσης θα σε ρίξουν.
Άν θές να κάνεις κάνα slide, δοκίμασε πρώτα σε βρεμμένο ή χώμα με λίγα και μικρή κλίση μόνο με γκάζι και συμπλέκτη και σώμα μπροστά -αν σε παίρνει πάρε ένα φτηνό γκάζι για ταρζανιές.
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Riding and Sliding
Is a motorcycle truly out of control when sliding? How do you save
it when the front or rear tire gives up traction? Why don't the fast guys
crash when their bikes slide? While wiggles and shakes are distracting,
there is a far more dramatic and deadly result from SR #2 that you should
fully understand and it has to do with sliding.
Perfect Design
Take this idea: A motorcycle in motion is a pretty stable* unit if left
alone by the rider. Put the bike into a slide to see if it's true. Does the
motorcycle feel stable to you when sliding? It should, if you're doing it
right.
In the most typical of slides, you have the back end "coming
around." What isn't understood by most riders and something that brings
up a very real drawback of SR #2, is the fact that the bike actually
compensates* for this slide automatically.
In a rear end slide the front end turns toward the direction the bike
is actually going -into the slide. The main mass of the bike is moving
outward and the front wheel turns just the right amount to stabilize it. This
feature comes free of charge with every motorcycle. In a car, if the back
end comes around, the front wheels turn to the inside of the turn, creating
a pivot point for the car's mass, and it spins out. Learning how to drive a
car in the snow is mostly a matter of understanding that you have to
manually turn the wheel into the skid to stabilize it. You don't on a bike.
When the bike slides and SR #2 is triggered, the rider with good
reactions and a strong back is in trouble. If the rider is successful at
holding the bars tight enough that they don't turn into the slide, the bike
now acts like the car: The front contact patch becomes a pivot point,
except that a motorcycle doesn't spin out, it highsides.
More little slides have turned into far worse situations than you
would care to know, because of this dramatic result of SR #2. I suppose it
pays to be slow and weak in this circumstance. In my own experience,
having the bike slide and then being stunned* into inaction (an SR of a
kind), then noticing the bike really didn't do anything wrong (didn't crash),
made me understand this self-correcting aspect of motorcycle dynamics.
For dirt riders, this is the main tool for cornering.
When it slides, that first
instinct says Chop It but the
bike is making a tighter
corner from the slide and you
don't have to. You stand it up.
If you don't raise it up in a
slide, the back end just keeps
on coming around.
Many small slides turn into
much worse situation from
excess rider input.
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