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Originally Posted by OreoGaborio
Karl, don't take this personally, but the sooner you realize that ONE BOOK isn't the be-all-end-all of motorcycle riding, the better off you'll be. I'm sure you realize this already, but you seem to be stuck in that mode.
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All curves aren't the same either. Going up Golden Gate Canyon, the first curve is a broad, 50 mph sweeper. Less than a hundred feet later is a blind, decreasing-radius, 15 mph curve in the opposite direction. Guess how many cars and bikes cross the double yellow there? There was another one further up the canyon, but they blasted away the canyon walls to make it a 20 or 25 mph curve.
I don't know about curves where everyone else rides, but most of the curves on my roads only last three or four seconds. Then I'm setting up for the next curve. A second or two to downshift and apply the brakes before the curve, one second to lean and keep the brakes on until the apex, and one second to apply throttle out of the curve. Going uphill might be earlier throttle, and going downhill might be longer brake. But except for leaning off the bike and pushing on the inner handlebar, my brakes are what I use to control the cornering arc.