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Throttle control on jumps. THIS IS NEW QUESTION
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[QUOTE="Jeff Gilbert, post: 713047, member: 20280"] Speed is only a part of it. For instance, last year I was on a track with a long run at a short double / stepup combo. Just after the landing was a 90 right hander in a berm. I had been hitting the jump in forth but letting off in plenty of time to only make it up on the face of the stepup for fear of over jumping and not making the turn. As the night went on I found myself alone on the track and this is where it got fun. Where I had been taking a long / fast run at the jump and letting off only to not clear it, I began seeing just how short of a run I could take and make the same distance. To my surprise the lees of a run I had at it, the more closer to clearing it I got. Finanlly I started about 10 ft from the face and hit the jump just as I hit 2nd gear and on the gas hard, I was clearing the jump perfectly but only going a fraction of the speed. The momentum of a hard accelleration is the key. I've learned since that I can control a jump more than I realized by how aggressive I am on the face of the jump. I guess it's like shooting a gun. As the bullet leaves the gun, it's with a lot of force, the same as when you are aggressive on a jump. By letting off and basically coasting a jump you loose momentum quickly just the same as the bullet would after it is in the air a while. (probably a bad scenario :confused: ) [/QUOTE]
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