As much as no one likes to hear it, you shouldn't be pushing for getting your knee down.
BOSS is correct. Lose the lowers. Time to start touching parts.
It will come with the speed.
BOSS is right again. It takes time. Don't think about it just take the turns like you are literally skating and can hear this sheeeeeeee happening.
Stretching to scrape a puck will inevitably lead to poor form (crossing up) and bad habits (poor line selection, swooping apexes, etc).
All tied up in one is BOSS gets it right. Do the same thing you are doing now. Be smooth. Faster means leaning more. So without thinking, go out, take the same lines, but shave the peg feeler. Once you feel it, your first reaction is 'crossing up' or more like sitting up you spooked yourself. This upsets your form, because you are now entering body move as well. Back to being smooth when all this happens you smooth it out, not spook it out sitting up and out in turn whatever weeds.
Poor line selection is open to discussion. Ideal apex you mean? How about, whatever smooth gets you in is the smooth that gets you out. So you screw up is you really don't. Smooth gets you out of it keep finding line. As far as swooping apexes, you mean the bottom out kind? Because this is where we are headed for is step 2.
Step 1 is you are comfortable with the track, know where you are fast, where some lines give you trouble, etc. Now comes the skate. You are going to have to crank it over more and start to wear out some toe tips and side boots, plus the peg extenders. So first you hang your boots out all comfortable on the pegs, lean the bike over more and begin to 'feel the toe tag the tarmac.'
See how the cross up/sit up would make you lift the bike, but rather tuck your toe in you found the sweet spot. That, or keep your toe in it, move it in, lean the bike more and start tagging the peg extender. There is your sweet spot #2, because you have a lot left.
The peg is going to pivot up and now the pipe is going to hit. It's all back to feel, know it, stay in it, and shave parts in the skating of it. That's pretty much step 2. There was no thinking about it. Now go buy another photo and see how low the bike is, where the peg is, and how much body did your ass crack move from center don't think = Your personal body style.
Step 3 is to rub that seat like you can't sit on it you give it throttle. Auto tire cleaner, baby powder, furniture polish, you want that seat like a greased pig, plus your ass and inner thighs peppered there too.
Once again, this is practice peppering until you run this all naturally with the body lift off the bike and your own style comes in: do not think about it. Your thinking is to tag toe and run smooth doing it. Once you are in the peg shaving, you are going to salvage those extenders and buy more. Who knows how long you are going to shave these down getting there, but do not exceed the peg or the threads are junk you start shaving pegs now.
This is not some weekend you'll get it next time out who knows? You first want to hear that sheeeeeeeeeeeee under you sitting upright. You'll be far over enough to slide your ass half or a 1/4 off the seat and begin to shave with the knee, so you now know to use less bike and more knee to keep from tagging [parts] as your knee starts dragging instead.
As you get faster, you will start touching down.
The track wisdom keeps showing the same old move. Say yes to this. Every time I go out I feel I went faster and no, no one has a watch on me. If you said yes, see how slow you really are going? Hindsight said I can go a lot faster thru this corner than I thought I could: the wisdom builds.
Just focus on your lines and add corner speed. It can be done, though!
Back to basics as stated. Never sacrifice the smooth line, meaning, it's still smooth as the last one you didn't think about. There is always a continuation of the upsetup never move from the smooth. Every time that tire stem comes around there is still smooth that continues is the next stem de groble. Whatever that meant? Don'think. Listen for the shave.
* Last updated by: Hub on 10/3/2014 @ 12:52 AM *
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