Real world rides, real world riders

Line up, line up, line up

As Steve notes, this is 'Like the cones you get on a track day'. Now I enjoy riding my KTM Adventure 'progressively' around rural roads, along with my wife on her KTM SM-T and we both get a great buzz riding on track days too. However, they are very different things and you ride them differently. With track days you don't have to worry about on-coming traffic or changes in road surface and your only concern is how to get through the corner as quickly as possible.

There is a natural human trait when taking a right hand bend to look at the exit as far as you can see and to allow the bike to follow the line of your view but your view is a straight line and you're riding a curve. So your line of sight draws you to the right , ie the centre of the road/apex. You really don't want to be in the centre/on the apex because, sooner or later, you are going to meet an oncoming vehicle straying over the centre line from the opposite direction, and you're leaning right into it. Surely, the wisest line is to take up a nearside entry to the corner, holding that line on the outside of the curve while watching the movement of the limit point and looking for the bend to open out so you can aim for the clear space at the exit point of the bend...not the apex.

Keep up the good work.

Peter Herridge
Secretary – Somerset Advanced Motorcyclists

Road turn-in points would be very different from track ones. The idea is that the turn-in point on the road should be at the place where you can already see round the corner so unscheduled trucks can be dealt with. SR