"How to teach yourself to look where you want to go!"
This may seem a fairly stupid question to ask yourself when the motorcycle gloves are gripping the bars and you THINK you're looking where you're going! Well our initial tendency is to look at the ground in front of the front wheel. It's like trying to walk around while looking at your feet. BUMP!
Lift your eyes up. Look at the horizon. All the necessary information is fed through your motorcycle gloves, up your arms to your head.
At the entrance to the corner, flick your eyes to the ground in front of you, then move your eyes slowly up and SCAN the road surface. As your eyes end up at the exit to the corner, you roll your motorcycle gloves over the throttle and gas it out smoothly.
If you feel like you're running wide and are going to overshoot the corner, the natural instinct is to look where you think you're going. This is when you have to teach yourself to look where you want to go!
Keep your motorcycle gloves smooth on the throttle and keep your head level. When encountering a tighter curve than expected...the brain usually says, "I can't lean any further", regardless of the fact that the bike can lean more, but this still leads to riders running off curves that the bike is fully capable of taking.
Be smooth. Caress the bars with ya motorcycle gloves on! Give the bike a chance! It takes time for a bike to go from upright to a lean. Being smooth through your motorbike gloves gives the bike a chance to get settled in one state before throwing the next one at it! That's why we blend braking into turning. Squeeze the brake with your motorbike gloves, don't grab it! Revolve the throttle easily through your caring motorcycle gloves, don't twist it violently, and don't just let go of the brake...ease it out!
If you want the bike to be smooth, treat the controls with smooth motorcycle gloves. Your goal in looking ahead is to look further and further away from you. The faster you go...the further ahead you need to look.
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