Originally Posted by
Peter Aawen
:agree: Sounds like it's still a 'more saddle time' thing for you, and that you are already starting out pretty well on the re-wiring, buut, have you been ONLY pulling with your inside hand? :dontknow:
At the risk of trying to teach you & any others who already know this (if you do, you're welcome to ignore, but I'll lay it out so that those who don't already know might benefit. ;) ) try not to 'push' the handle bar with your outside hand, instead, just pull with the inside hand as well as doing the bracing & pushing yourself IN with your outside foot bit that you mentioned, and maybe even let your behind slide across to the inside of the seat a bit too! You certainly shouldn't need to hang off the inside of the seat, but doing the PULL thing to help move your weight (& point of view) IN so that it helps keep the CoG IN and DOWN as you look ahead as far thru and around the corner that you can, focusing on where you want to be as far down the road as you can see will all help counter that sense of 'almost being tossed off the outside'!!
Another thing that can help is 'late apexing' the corners.... Basically, that means don't turn in too early in too much of an effort to do a smooth, constant rate turn.....Sure, smooth is the aim, but instead, try to start out wide (actually use the full width of your lane/side of the road :thumbup: ) & while you do want to do the bulk of your braking in a staight line, don't pile it all on early just to get it over, but rather do MOST of it early but hold it a little later & stay on the trailing brake while you keep your Spyder out wide and let it go straight just a little deeper into the corner than you normally would with that constant rate turn, before starting your 'turn in', get off the brake, & smoothly (pulling in on the inside hand) guide the Spyder thru the corner in a path that will just see your inside front wheel gently touch the fog line where the corner finally straightens out & not before - that's the 'late apex'!! :ohyea:
The later braking lets you stay that bit straighter as you keep wide on the entry; then your 'turn in' is shorter & usually over quicker than it is in a 'constant rate turn', but just where you'd normally be starting to feel uncomfortably like you're going to be tossed off the Spyder and onto the outside of the corner, you should be able to start to ease the 'turn in' off a bit & smoothly open out both the steering AND the throttle as you aim for and then gently let your inside front wheel 'kiss the fog-line' at the late apex! It can mean that you hold more speed INTO the turn, hold that speed and stay faster THRU the turn, and then get on the gas sooner coming OUT of the turn, and it feels FANBLOODYTASTIC when you finally do that, but you really don't need to aim for that to start out with!! Use the Late Apexing technique to help your turns feel less like you are going to be thrown off the outside; keep your speed down and practice the timing and technique on EVERY corner or deviation from 'straight ahead' you come across/ryde thru until it becomes second nature & a muscle memory; and once you've become that comfortable with it all, gradually let your speed increase until you are happy taking every corner at a speed and in a way that does give you that FANBLOODYTASTIC feeling!! :yes:
And remember, just like someone once said about their hair.... It won't happen overnight, but it WILL happen! :2thumbs: