Get it out there

I do know that area a little bit. Originally from the Cotswolds and used to go down to Wales quite a lot for work. Some of the roads are indeed amazing but you are right as many a time I came round a corner to find a sheep standing in the middle of the road That and all the shit they leave on the road.

Would like to get down there at some point this summer. Will def be doing a few rides out with m8s from Gloucestershire and we normally head off that way. If it looks like I'm heading over the Taff I'll let you know.

April fools right?

Danni moves his body weight around a bike as well as any rider.



You may have forgot he was a 125 and 250 world champion.
Now he rides a heavier bike, his body wieght constitutes a smaller percentage of the total load on the tyres - so you could suggest that body position is less important.

I'm not suggesting that moving your body to the inside isn't important, it clearly allows less lean angle / bigger contact patch. (I SHOULD know that having been on a road race podium) I don't think however that DP is disadvantaged by his size in a corner.

The "CSS" style of cornering with that very photogenic head position is as much for style as effect. It's taught to encourage guys to move their mass off to the side of the bike - it's not required to get your mass there though.

Look at pictures of Mick Doohan or Troy Bayliss, they don't have the picture perfect pose of a Spies, but they sure got the job done.

you are moving your body weight from the top of the bike to a position that is lower and to the inside. This changes how your weight influences the bike when centriufgal force begins pushing it toward the outside of the turn. When your weight is higher on the bike it gives the cornering forces a lever to work with. To overcome centrifugal force the bike must be leaned over in the turn. The greater the force the more you must lean to overcome it. By hanging off you move your weight to the inside of the bike and lower to the ground, presenting less of a lever for the forces to act upon. This does not weaken the force, it simply lessens its effect. Now the bike does not have to be leaned over as far to make the same radius of turn and can go faster without having to increase the lean angle even if you go through the turn at the same speed as a rider sitting upright on his machine you can begin your acceleration sooner than he can because your straight up bike has more rubber on the road!