14-07-12, 10:03 AM
Depending how much you like cleaning the bike but I'd suggest if you feel it's affecting your riding going out on wet roads, not particularly when it's raining as it's the road surface that's worrying you.
But if you can find a space in the recent summer when it's not actually coming down....... find some road(s) that're not full of hazards and just ride on them, is easier to get some wild rear wheel slides, but not if you're smooth with throttle opening as if it does the wheel speed will catch up with the engine dead quickly and the slide will slow, if you're grabbing handfuls of throttle then the engine speed will rocket when it looses traction and the wheel won't catch up for a long time and if you're still right way up when it does catch all that energy will get you a highside, go into corners slower and put power on gently but earlier as bike's most likely to crash loading the front wheel in the turn tho' with the fab' brakes/SBS pads on a Fazer and a good front tyre you'd be surprised the massive amount you can brake provided you're upright, be smooth, which isn't the same as slow! With increasing the braking force and avoid doing any braking on anything slippery, you don't want to be trailing any brake once you're turning. If you do and can catch front wheel slides regularly you should be on a track with Cal.
You'll find you do have to work to provoke a slide and if you do provoke it then you can stop it too, is unexpected spins that catch you out.
Use as much of the road as is safe but you should do anyways, one of the best bits of bikes is the amount of space on a road, both sides are fair game if you can see ahead, further you can see around a corner the faster you can go/more upright you can remain but also the quicker you'll see that Astra with an old giffer at the wheel going at 50mph less than the speed limit.
On a decent surface you'd want to get as much heat into the tyres as you can as (In my opinion) that's a large reason for lack of grip, just feel how cold a rear tyre is after a rainy ride compared to a dry one, front's even worse.
If you're lucky to have a track near you there's worse things than doing a track day, there'll be a ton of grip even in the wet and it's likely to be going on the last few months.
The Fazer's a pretty good tool in the wet as is softly sprung, well balanced, has ace brakes and enough shunt and heavy enough not to be skittish, my RG500 would spin up with no encouragement which was great for onlookers.
Is all the rubbish on the road that causes trouble, diesel is worst as is pretty much always on a curve and is the most slippery stuff, lot of grit washed onto them at the moment I find around here too, ok if you've a motocrosser....
But if you can find a space in the recent summer when it's not actually coming down....... find some road(s) that're not full of hazards and just ride on them, is easier to get some wild rear wheel slides, but not if you're smooth with throttle opening as if it does the wheel speed will catch up with the engine dead quickly and the slide will slow, if you're grabbing handfuls of throttle then the engine speed will rocket when it looses traction and the wheel won't catch up for a long time and if you're still right way up when it does catch all that energy will get you a highside, go into corners slower and put power on gently but earlier as bike's most likely to crash loading the front wheel in the turn tho' with the fab' brakes/SBS pads on a Fazer and a good front tyre you'd be surprised the massive amount you can brake provided you're upright, be smooth, which isn't the same as slow! With increasing the braking force and avoid doing any braking on anything slippery, you don't want to be trailing any brake once you're turning. If you do and can catch front wheel slides regularly you should be on a track with Cal.
You'll find you do have to work to provoke a slide and if you do provoke it then you can stop it too, is unexpected spins that catch you out.
Use as much of the road as is safe but you should do anyways, one of the best bits of bikes is the amount of space on a road, both sides are fair game if you can see ahead, further you can see around a corner the faster you can go/more upright you can remain but also the quicker you'll see that Astra with an old giffer at the wheel going at 50mph less than the speed limit.
On a decent surface you'd want to get as much heat into the tyres as you can as (In my opinion) that's a large reason for lack of grip, just feel how cold a rear tyre is after a rainy ride compared to a dry one, front's even worse.
If you're lucky to have a track near you there's worse things than doing a track day, there'll be a ton of grip even in the wet and it's likely to be going on the last few months.
The Fazer's a pretty good tool in the wet as is softly sprung, well balanced, has ace brakes and enough shunt and heavy enough not to be skittish, my RG500 would spin up with no encouragement which was great for onlookers.
Is all the rubbish on the road that causes trouble, diesel is worst as is pretty much always on a curve and is the most slippery stuff, lot of grit washed onto them at the moment I find around here too, ok if you've a motocrosser....