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Old 06-04-08, 07:43 PM
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Re: How to deal with wheelspin...


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Originally Posted by OreoGitorio View Post
This is where we use the "ratchet" method:

You roll on the throtle as you exit the corner... smoothly rolling on the gas harder & harder & harder (click, click, click). If you feel the tire begin to slip, that's when your wrist becomes a "ratchet"... IE, your wrist can NOT roll OFF the gas.... you hold that throttle setting until the tire regains grip, then you continue to roll on the throttle.
So the way it happens is as I proceed to stand the bike up out of the turn, prevent my wrist from dialing back beyond the point where the spin induces, then roll into the gas more and out of the corner?

On the first occurance I noticed a slight "shuffle" from the rear as I got on the power. What would possibly cause that? The rear shuffled on me only that one time so I'm thinking I might have dialed back the gas upon the new feeling of the bike going sideways...not too sure. I did go harder on the compression damping after that happened and the bike did shuffle for the remainder of the day.
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