Hhhmm
Joe
It's all good to sit and smile and see who says what, you can't teach people to ride on the internet, you are playing with people's live's. Rider training days and track training days and lotsa time on the road is the only way to learn how to ride these powerful bikes of the 21st century.
People will start blaming tyres for their crashes, when you don't even know if they had the correct tyre pressures and suspension set-up on that brand of tyre.
How many guy's do you know who will tell you if you see a wet patch in the road, best thing to do is keep the gas constant, almost everybody will tell you to shut the gas but don't hit the brakes. Shutting the gas is the same to the tyres as hitting the front brake....watch the comments on this !
One of the best was a 40+ gent on a Z1100 telling us how he uses his back brake for steering and to steady the bike coming out of corners, well done Eddy Lawson !
I was a assistant coach at a race school recently, and when the question was asked, 3 of the 10 guys in the group still used their BACK brake as the primary option. All on GSXR's and CBR's. WTF.
I rode bikes on the road most of my life, but only VERY recently started racing, I do not pretend to know everything, but I do know you are opening a Big Pandora's Box and that is probably why you have not had such a big response to your thread. ; )
Do you realise how many people know what the APEX of a corner is, or a Negative camber corner, or a tyre pressure gauge for that matter.
One fella, bless his good heart, came to a track day and promptly told the other guys that he will be taking it easy as he's got new tyres on, he has only done about a 400km on them and is still scrubbing them in. WTF.
I say this much, ride within your limits and go do some track days, it is well worth it and will teach you what your bike can do, and how much you really know, in a controlled environment, so you don't have to panic, hopefully, when you run across those surprises on the road.
Just my 2 cent's worth:naughty: