Hi all,
I have been practicing in a parking lot and to improve my slow turning skills I'm doing slow figure 8s and also starting up from a turning position imediately into a slow turn. I'm improving except for this : Almost every time I get to (or near) the lock position in my slow turn my steering 'feels' like it wants to do just that- 'LOCK' and stay there. It is like I can't seem to overcome the rake and gravity in time to change directions and to keep myself up. I don't feel comfortable enough to let it have more clutch friction or throttle. At the point where I have the problem I have to add more back brake and stick my foot out to break the inevitable fall over of my bike.(I haven't laid the bike all the way down yet.)
If I were to give this feeling an analogy, it would be of a pilot in a plane stuck in a spiraling dive towards the ground. I assume that I should speed up with clutch friction when I am at this "lock/fall over point" but it just doesn't seem right to me because of the extreme turn angle that I'm in. Any advise on this is very much appreciated. ps-I have been away from biking for a long time and I am sheduled to take the msf safety course to get my self up to snuff.
Thanks in advance,
Bob
