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Cornering: Street vs dirt bike, why different?
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[QUOTE="BSer, post: 1097931, member: 22984"] I'm a lifelong dirtbike guy who recently bought a CBR600F4i sportbike to use commuting to work. Cornering on a dirtbike without a berm is like: weight outside peg, body perpendicular to the ground, leg out for balance. Cornering on a sportbike is like: never stick your leg out, buns off the seat to the inside of the corner, body off the to inside of the corner in an attempt to "kiss the mirror". The streetbike guys do it this way because leaning the body means you don't have to lean the bike. This is good because it keeps lean angles from getting too great and assumably keeps momentum loss to a minimum. So, now when I ride my motocross bike I'm confused on which way to lean? When there is no berm doesn't it make more sense to lean your body and keep the bike as perpendicular to the ground as possible like a streetbike? ...and SuperMotard really baffles me. Wouldn't those guys be faster if they rode like Nicky Hayden instead of McGrath on the pavement, or is it the other way around? Can somebody explain all this? [/QUOTE]
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