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Its not the jump... Its the RPM's!
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[QUOTE="High Lord Gomer, post: 89795, member: 16469"] You're welcome. Being able to help is (one of) the best things about DRN.The second thing that Ike (one of Gary Semics' authorized teachers) teaches is body positioning. (The first is control positioning) When he moves around on the bike, he goes from hips over the handlebars (during full acceleration) to stretched back as far as he can (during hard braking).Exactly! Except it isn't just throttle position...you can be full throttle at low RPMs and not have much power. It is really how much drive you are getting and how hard you are accelerating.Yep!I rarely goose the throttle on takeoff. The only time I use that is when I already have more than enough speed and am coasting up to the jump, but need to blip the throttle because otherwise the sharpness of the takeoff would kick the back end up too high. In most cases, if you have got more than enough speed, you should start looking for an even tighter inside line before the jump.Actually, the opposite. Steeper jumps tend to kick the back end of the bike up more. To counter that, you normally need to be on the gas more and a little farther back. On short, steep jumps, sometimes the front tire will already be in the air when the rear tire hits the jump. This will violently kick the rear end up and the front down. For those, I do blip the throttle very hard and pull back on the bars with a tight grip. I wish I could do it as well as I can explain it! :confused: [/QUOTE]
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Its not the jump... Its the RPM's!
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