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I ran Crowhill today - very, very rusty but started feeling better as the day went on. I've always struggled ENORMOUSLY with the following simple techniques and can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Any thoughts would be great.
1) Tight turns (ie 1. Very tight right hand turn at the bottom of the sand after you sweep out of the left turn, 2. The right hander before the 2 "tabletops" mid track, and 3. The left hand inside line of the first turn after you enter the track (near the woods). To say I go wide is an understatement. I see the nice carved out line, but I plow right over it every time with no chance. It seems like my bike is physically 3x longer than it should be - that's how badly I struggle. I'm not diving in fast either, I just can't get the thing to turn.
2) The downhill sweeping right hand turn to the little tabletop thing - like 30 seconds in from track entrance. What the heck does one do to stick the bike and square up the table? I drift, drift, drift left no matter what speed I'm at, and if I really attack it, I'll end up off the left side of the track every time. Last year it became my line - I have to correct this.
3) What jetting corrections if the bottom end isn't as responsive as it needs to be? Beginning of the season, so I'm slower than normal, thus lacking corner speed. The problem arises when I can't clear a jump because of it. My options are to really twist and hit the pipe and probably rocket to the moon, or downshift which would be too twitchy. Is there a jetting adjustment?
THANKS!