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Someone teach me how to flat track.
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[QUOTE="Ol'89r, post: 1139368, member: 17212"] 76GMC1500. There are as many different ways to take a turn as there are different turns and track surfaces. On some of the loose, 'cushion' flattracks like the one's in Ohio and the East Coast, you do enter the corner at full throttle. Some of them you never shut the throttle off all the way through the turn. As you enter this type of turn, the power will cause the rear tire to break loose upon entry and by countersteering you keep the bike in that position until you enter the straightaway. If you were to shut the throttle off in the middle of the turn you would slide out to the fence and in some cases, through the fence. :nod: Don't ask me how I know that. :yikes: If you go West to the dry, slick and sometimes 'blue groove' type of track, you enter the turn by shutting the throttle off and tapping the rear brake inorder to get the rear end to step out. As soon as the rear end steps out you have to get right back on the throttle to keep it out and then drive through the turn under power. The whole idea of sliding a turn is to enable you to go around the turn faster than centrifugal force will normally allow you to do. If you try tracking around the turn, or in other words, not sliding either wheel, you can only go so fast until centrifugal force causes one or both of your wheels to loose traction resulting in centrifugal force pushing you off the track. The idea of powersliding is to keep the bike at such an angle as to where the rear wheel is pushing you in toward the inside of the track while centrifugal force is pushing you toward the outside of the track. This enables you to go much faster through the turn than just tracking around the corner. There is a delicate balance of throttle control, body position and traction feel required to do this and all the while keeping your forward momentum going. Learning how to do this will help you be faster on all types of tracks, flattrack, tt, mx even road racing. Many motocrossers don't slide. They only bounce off of berms. If you can master how to slide, it gives you a big advantage over these other riders in the corners. While they are all lining up to hit the berm, you can slide under them and use the other parts of the turn that they are not using. It freak's them out too because they think your crashing. ;) Even in road racing learning how to slide is important. Our current Moto GP World Champ is Nicky Hayden. Nicky started out riding flattrack. To learn how to do this, I suggest finding a big open field of loose dirt and setting yourself up a little short track. Practice going in to the turn and locking up your rear brake. When you rear tire locks up, countersteer in the direction of the slide and slide to a stop. Do this several times until you are comfortable with sliding to a stop. Then practice applying throttle while you are brake sliding inorder to keep the bike sliding. You have to be fairly aggressive with the throttle to make the transition from brake sliding to power sliding. Otherwise the rear tire can bite in and high side you. To get comfortable with power sliding try going around in circles. Start with small circles and apply more throttle while trying to keep the radius of the circle the same. Apply more and more throttle until the rear wheel kicks out under power. Practice throttle control and balance to keep the rear wheel sliding while keeping the same radius in the circle. Hope this helps. :cool: Ol'89r Disclaimer: Be sure to wear all of your saftey gear and practice all suggestions at a low speed since you will most likely crash several times learning this. Also, if you are dumb enough to try something that you heard on the internet by some old fart that cant even find his glasses and you hurt yourself, well, don't blame me. :laugh: [/QUOTE]
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