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I'm trying to work on my body position. I was wondering how far my ass should be out of the seat. My guess was moving one cheeck off? Is that about right?
Also, do you move forward/aft or keep the same seat location as you get off the side of the bike (moving forward/back seems to make a big difference, but I can't decide which way (or not at all) is better.)
The reason I ask. Sometimes, as I'm playing with body position, my rear wheel gets a squirely. Usually happens in turn three. Doesn't happen on the street, but I don't get off the bike quite as far on the street...except once today when I was shooting up rt. 17 (where I was hanging way off and the rear got squirliy). I'm trying to figure out why this happens.
One thought is that these are turns where I sometimes need to correct my line during the turn. But, even so, the reaction shouldn't be so intense.
So, I don't know if the cause is the location of my torso or inputs from my hands. As I move off the bike I tend to hold the bars more firmely. Maybe I'm giving unwanted inputs to the bars? When you move far off the bike, are you still able to refrain from increasing grip on the bars to hold onto the bike? I know I'm supposed to use my leg to hold onto the bike, but do you use the bars for balance or to hold onto the bike at all? When I get way, way off I feel like I'm barely holding on and I could get thrown off if bumped (or if a mosquito hit me).