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[QUOTE="TexKDX, post: 94124, member: 16276"] RDA, here are a few comments I hope you find helpful. Lever placement and rear brake placement are critical to operating the bike while standing with confidence. So is the angle of the bars. Most people have them pulled back too far (bars); loosen them up and roll them forward. Next, move your levers in/out until your index finger fits in the crook of the lever. Angle the levers down at about 30 degrees below horizontal. Do this with the bike on the ground and you on it, not up on a stand, to get the angle right. Adjust the front brakle and clutch so they work as needed with two fingers on the levers (index and middle) and two on the bars. Adjust the engagement on the clutch so it is disengaged just prior to the lever making contact with the two fingers on the bar. Same idea for the front brake. As a confidence booster, go ahead and make your rear brake the perfect height for standing. You can adjust it for compromise later, but for now make it perfect for standing. Why? See the last two paragraphs. Secondly, you are not just trying to stand, rather trying to be in the "attack" position. This involves bending at the waist, knees basically straight, arms bent, elbows up. Now for the trick - holding this position using your stomach and back muscles, not resting your weight on your arms. Arms should be relaxed and not carrying the weight. The standing/attack position is all about agressive, planned riding, not reactive riding. Your weight will shift forward in anticipation of accelerating, and back in anticipation of braking. Again the trunk muscles control this, not pushing and pulling on the bars. Getting away from that falling off the front/back feeling comes from anticipation and planning. Anticipation and planning are facilitated by looking further down the trail and thru the woods to see what is coming up and being ready for it. Next comes the transition from sitting to standing and back again. Sitting has its own attack position with the head over/ahead of the bars, elbows up, body well forward in the seat so the bike can pivot around your body. Finally, to Taraker's point, you'll have to just go do it. Go ride, the WHOLE RIDE, everything on the ride, standing. Experiment with turning, braking, accelerating, etc. It can all be done standing, trust me. It is the way I learned, work on the position some with a friend, get the controls right, and just go do it all day. Heck, take the seat off if you have to, but just go do it. After 30 or 40 miles you will be better at standing, no doubt. Once you are comfortable standing then you can work in transitions to/from sitting. On the day you go stand all day, try this - relax the upper body and steer the bike with the pegs. That is the dirty little secret about motorcycles - the handlebars are just a convenient place to put the controls. A two wheeled single axis vehicle steers from weight input behind the pivot point, not by manually twisting the pivot point. Yes, brakes and throttle effect it too, but the peg thing is mucho important. Let us know how it goes. I think the control placement and operating them with four fingers and two thumbs on the bars at all times will go a long way to making you more comfortable up there. The trunk muscle thing will come with time and training. [/QUOTE]
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