"Threading The Needle": Cornering: Motorcycle Gloves To Lead You

The essence of motorcycle riding is cornering, using the twist of your motorcycle gloves. I can't stress this enough! You will probably never do it like Valentino Rossi, but when you get into the rhythm of a flowing and ongoing stream, instead of seeing corners as a single entity, then you are riding!

Pull on your motorcycle gloves and do it! Corners are there because a straight line was not possible. Keep alert! Exit one corner in a position that gives you the best chance of a good entry into the next. When your motorcycle gloves are acting simultaneously, without being aware of what you are doing and you are choosing ideal lines, and you instinctively know how a corner will behave, you have the right speed, the right gear, everything fits together, then you are in the flow.

Your motorcycle gloves are helping you get into a rhythm. Even unfamiliar roads can be ridden smoothly and quickly, by just looking ahead. Look "far ahead". Keep track of the "vanishing point", because when it comes closer, the corner is tightening! If you concentrate on getting your exit right, then you'll get your entry for the next one right!


So, "threading the needle" is this:-

• Follow the line with your eyes, not your motorcycle gloves!
• Be ready, right speed, right gear.
• Stay at the outside of the corner, then lean and keep looking "far ahead".
• Give throttle in the corner. You can always lean a second time & give more gas. Twist ya motorbike gloves & accelerate out and look ahead to the next corner.