Don't try to run from this cop

[nhbubba]

Absolute turning radius of these harleys is about 16.5 feet or so, roughly two parking spots. I encourage you to try that on a sport bike, you can practice in any parking lot.

I'm almost down to a half lane of my rural subdivision. ... On my V-Strom. He he, he he..

the trick to all of these skills, if you watch the video and listen during the tight turns, is throttle, clutch and rear brake. its hard to explain but I could show you sometime.

Yes. Insane!

For these competitions, do they tune the bikes special or something. Up the idle or anything?

Must give the left hand a helluva workout.

[OreoGaborio]

very little counterweighting at all. It would exhaust you if you had to counterweight all day. But stay's put and you turn your head to look through the corners.

the trick to all of these skills, if you watch the video and listen during the tight turns, is throttle, clutch and rear brake. its hard to explain but I could show you sometime.

I consider keeping your body upright and leaning the bike down underneath you a minor form of counterweighting. If you watch the up close circle at the :26 mark you'll see an example of what I mean. I see him doing that a lot in the vid. He's not actually moving his BUTT over in the seat or weighting the outside peg, but he IS keeping weight on the outside of the motorcycle by keeping his body upright.

[jcbell1007]

I'm almost down to a half lane of my rural subdivision. ... On my V-Strom. He he, he he..
Yes. Insane!

For these competitions, do they tune the bikes special or something. Up the idle or anything?

Must give the left hand a helluva workout.

I'm not sure if they do anything for the competitions but i'm assuming they don't, there's no need to. Our new bikes (from 2008 on) have the 103 with a cable clutch. This is all in first gear with the clutch partially out in the friction zone, not fully out and not fully in. I'd say about 2/3 - 3/4 engaged most of the time. and yes, the harley motor course was a workout. I dumped the bike probably 200 times in about 3 days before I finally figured it out. everyone dumps them when they are learning because you have to. It's such an unnatural feeling at first to be going so slow with the bike leaned over so much, but as you get used to it, you'll find out just how much these heavy bikes can handle. and your clutch hand goes through a cramping stage at the beginning of every riding season getting used to it again. But, I'm the nut that finds a parking lot and practices at the beginning of every shift before I hit the street.

[nhbubba]

The last Harley I rode was an 80ci FLHS. It was not the model of smoothness. I'm guessing things have changed since then.

I'd love to take one of those cop courses.