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Learning to turn properly
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<blockquote data-quote="NTXFJR" data-source="post: 1330310" data-attributes="member: 88839"><p>Just a thought, lean angle. You have to lean the bike for it to track a turn properly. The fjr will lean over with out dragging hard parts much more than most realize. I leaned some pretty hard curves in Colorado during nafo while following some fellow <s>hoodlums</s> forum members and never scraped a peg, naary a bit. Our bikes will carve some pretty mean curves with relative ease, but the proper lean angle has to be there to do it. That's true with any bike, but our sport touring fjrs will safely handle quite a bit of angle. Bottom line, don't be afraid to lean that bike over some more, trust your bike and tires while making sure you are aware of things like leaves, dirt, gravel, potholes, etc as you are negotiating the turn. One of the things our safety course instructor taught us was that scraping a peg is not the end of the world, it can be safely dealt with. I preemptively put the balls of my feet on the pegs when entering a curve to avoid the psycological distraction of worrying about dragging a foot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NTXFJR, post: 1330310, member: 88839"] Just a thought, lean angle. You have to lean the bike for it to track a turn properly. The fjr will lean over with out dragging hard parts much more than most realize. I leaned some pretty hard curves in Colorado during nafo while following some fellow [S]hoodlums[/S] forum members and never scraped a peg, naary a bit. Our bikes will carve some pretty mean curves with relative ease, but the proper lean angle has to be there to do it. That's true with any bike, but our sport touring fjrs will safely handle quite a bit of angle. Bottom line, don't be afraid to lean that bike over some more, trust your bike and tires while making sure you are aware of things like leaves, dirt, gravel, potholes, etc as you are negotiating the turn. One of the things our safety course instructor taught us was that scraping a peg is not the end of the world, it can be safely dealt with. I preemptively put the balls of my feet on the pegs when entering a curve to avoid the psycological distraction of worrying about dragging a foot. [/QUOTE]
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