08-04-13, 01:44 PM
If you are having issues with slow corners then I would suggest that track riding may not be of much help in regard to this - don't get me wrong, I'm sure track days are awesome and you'd really enjoy it and learn a lot, but probably nothing towards going slow.
My advice would be to take your bike to the local supermarket car park when no-one is around and start doing chicanes and loops around the lamp posts at low speed to get a feel for the bikes balance at low speed. Someone did mention Twist Of The Wrist II as well which has a huge amount of information and is aimed at being a "Cornering Bible". Not all of it is relevant - the latter half is more about track riding in my opinion. But the information about breaking around corners, throttle control and counter-steering were hugely helpful for me to understand the forces at play and how to control my bike. Remembering how to counter-steer properly whilst going a little too fast in a corner has helped me on several occasions
My advice would be to take your bike to the local supermarket car park when no-one is around and start doing chicanes and loops around the lamp posts at low speed to get a feel for the bikes balance at low speed. Someone did mention Twist Of The Wrist II as well which has a huge amount of information and is aimed at being a "Cornering Bible". Not all of it is relevant - the latter half is more about track riding in my opinion. But the information about breaking around corners, throttle control and counter-steering were hugely helpful for me to understand the forces at play and how to control my bike. Remembering how to counter-steer properly whilst going a little too fast in a corner has helped me on several occasions
