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How do you keep from putting weight on your inside wrist?

DonJigweed said:
Too funny! I missed that from this last weekend. That actually might be me he's giving the finger too, I know I went by him a number of times Sunday. But it's funny because it's now the *second* time I've seen Shawnery giving the finger to the back of some rider's quickly vanishing helmet. The other time was a Keigwin's day at Thill like 5 or 6 weeks ago, complete with fist shaking and the whole nine yards. lol
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Nope it was GJ. :), dammit you were there? I would have liked to have put a face to the Barfname...
 
m54samrr said:
Troublemaker, I'm trying to justify posting the vid or at least a snip of it.
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Sam, if it shows Shawnery's BP, maybe it's worth a look?

Mike, this kind of stuff won't be learned on the net, in all honesty. I'd ask you why the weight on the inside arm is a problem, but I think alot of people are sick of me drilling that bullshit...

Alot of people focus on the "core exercises", but I differ somewhat. A strong core is important, but at the end of the day my thighs, triceps and inner thigh muscles tend to be the sorest. When you wear out one muscle group, another will take over, but use the rock climbers axiom: biggest muscles for climb, smaller muscles for foot placement, etc. IOW, use the biggest muscles you can for the job...

Do your legs get sore after a day or riding, or at least can you feel you got a workout? I use the "yes/no" machines regularly in my workouts to workout inner/ outer thigh muscles as well as burnout sets all the time for quads. Perhaps that's it? A resistance to trusting your weight over that knee?

And lookit that...after saying you can't learn this shit on the web...
 
I rest my chest on the inside half of the tank. Outside forearm and elbow on the outside of the tank. On left-hand corners, I take my hand off the bar, wipe my nose and smear it off on the ground.

Remember that in a lean, cornering G-forces combine with gravity and the resultant vector is roughly in-line with bike. If you take both your hands off in the middle of a corner (with cruise-control or something to keep throttle on), your head, chest and but will actually be pressed towards the bike's centerline plane, not towards the ground.
 
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One way to take the weight off the inside arm is to be a total camera whore look at me show-off...
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Holeshot said:
I use the "yes/no" machines regularly in my workouts to workout inner/ outer thigh muscles....
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:laughing Never heard them referred to as that. Perfect. And yeah, I agree...as gHey as you look using these machines, they are great for our application.
 
Med23 said:
:laughing Never heard them referred to as that. Perfect. And yeah, I agree...as gHey as you look using these machines, they are great for our application.
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I make sure when I am using them I act as manly as possible to negate the effects
 
I like to drop my shoulder to remind me to take the weight off the bars.

m54samrr said:
I don't know, I think you mastered keeping weight off of one hand in the corners at least this last weekend.

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I apologize to those behind, I was always told to put my hand up when doing something unpredictable and I thought the middle finger through 3 qualified as such.

Seriously though, my bad, should have dealt with it diffently.
 
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Shawnery said:
I like to drop my shoulder to remind me to take the weight off the bars.



I apologize to those behind, I was always told to put my hand up when doing something unpredictable and I thought the middle finger through 3 qualified as such.

Seriously though, my bad, should have dealt with it diffently.
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I don't think anyone was complaining about you in this instance.
 
That should reduce the odds of contracting checkered scrotum.
 
Holeshot said:
Mike, this kind of stuff won't be learned on the net, in all honesty. I'd ask you why the weight on the inside arm is a problem, but I think alot of people are sick of me drilling that bullshit...
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Well, I thought I read you say one time that the more weight you put on that inside arm the harder you're making it to get the bike to the apex. That and I went out one very cold morning without tire warmers and went up the hill to 3 at Sears in the first session doing about 4 or 5K rpm in 2nd or 3rd, basically just burbling, and when I got to the top of the hill the front just pushed right out from under me in slow motion, and I think I was probably putting weight on that inside wrist, and if I hadn't have been, it might have got traction again. So now whenever I feel myself putting a lot of pressure on the inside bar whilst still on the brakes a fair amount, I kind of wonder to myself, how much harder do I have to brake before that weight just pushes the front away again.
 
DonJigweed said:
Well, I thought I read you say one time that the more weight you put on that inside arm the harder you're making it to get the bike to the apex. That and I went out one very cold morning without tire warmers and went up the hill to 3 at Sears in the first session doing about 4 or 5K rpm in 2nd or 3rd, basically just burbling, and when I got to the top of the hill the front just pushed right out from under me in slow motion, and I think I was probably putting weight on that inside wrist, and if I hadn't have been, it might have got traction again. So now whenever I feel myself putting a lot of pressure on the inside bar whilst still on the brakes a fair amount, I kind of wonder to myself, how much harder do I have to brake before that weight just pushes the front away again.
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I have a theory that that pressure keeps the bars from turning in, and thusly creates a warning push rather than an instant crash... This just based on the sum of my "oh shit moments"
 
Mike, that's about it...a stiff arm causes a bike to not steer and thus riders tend to add more lean angle than is needed (which is contrary to Rory's comment, in my experience). A tire that points more into a corner is less lean angle needed for the same steering result.

Don't sweat the cold tire crash, which is what that sounded like. After popping those wonderful Sears Point garage breakers and going out in F1 two rounds back, I ended up on my ass on the warmup lap in T2 after adding less than 15 degrees angle...cold tire crash classico.

A good place to screw around with loose arms and using legs, etc is the carousel at sears or T2 at Thill...
 
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