Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

TRANSPORT YOUR BIKE IN STYLE WITH ACCESSORIES BY TAYLOR ... I;) ~ E I;) U IU c A complete line of custom van. Top left. Ga ry included the jump in the turn. held it t ight in the left-hander. Top right. as he approaches the right-hander he starts squaring it off so he can dip the inside co rn e r and stay in tight. Above left. doing it wrong. He still has to get wide for the following right hander (above right). which makes the turn even tigh ter and m ore awkward. Be low. David points out the two lines approaching the right hander. truck and mini -truck accessories desig ned just fo r motorcycle owners . Eve ryt h in g from a tiedown to a com plet.. custom package is listed in the 1975 catalog . S e n d $ 1 .0 0 today. 7 6 42 Claire mont Mesa Blvd . S a n Diego, California 921 1 1 phone 714/292 ·0270 NEW FROM SPECIALIST IN MOTORCYCL E COMPET ITI ON EQU IPMENT Penton Jackpine Chambers $65 Competiti on Teste d l st in Class District 37 Desert Lt. we. Ex. DIY. 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The average rider will do tha t in three separate parts. lie will make the first turn " nd get thai done and over a with. 111en he will gel Sci for the h ill maybe stand u p on the pegs - and ridc the hill however h e has figured out is best, A l th c lop h e may get h is front wheel u p in th e a ir or may be eve n the co mp le t e bike. li e w ill ge l everything back d o wn on th e gro un d again - lo o k up at th e co m er ahead ~ sci up for il an d make that turn. Thai may be a good wa y 10 do il and il may not he. Ask yourself this question : "If th a t hill were not o n the tr ac k between th ose two turns. how would I ride il ?" Chances are you would lake a di fferent line. You would figure out some way to co n nec t those two turns so your exit from the first put-you o n a good line in to the second and maybe straightened the second c u rve o u t so you co uld just blast through it. Well if thai is a go o d wa y 10 ride it without the hill in between, wh y isn 't it a good wa y 10 do it when the hill is there? Include the hill in the tum. It may be tha i the best way 10 go up the hill is to Slay o ut on the left side all the way up. 'Tha t would b e co nsid er ing thc hill all by itse lf', HUI if you also figurc in the turn a t the lop you will see a b etter way . ~Iaybe you will want to be o n the left side at the bolt o m and on. the righ I side of the track hy the time you gel to the 101' of the hill. 1110se kin ds of things a re hard 10 figure o u t wh e n you a rc riding the track. They arc easy if yo u stand on top of the h ill and look in hot h directions. You will see good lin es. do it if th at lin e ga ve y o u som e terrific ad va n tag e in the turn. ~Iorc li kely y, )U will decide to miss the humps . That m eans ride either to the extrem e ri~1t or the e x t rem e le ft. Which you choose to do will depend o n how th at puts y o u into the turn , Look at b oth ways . Th ink about how yo u will gel into th e turn and h o w you will co m e out of it . T hcn you will pro b ahl y wa nt to t ry it both ways in practice - may be all three ways. Yo u c a n ~et in to a sim ila r p ro bl em when there a re a lo t of h umps coming out of a comer. Typically th ese bumps will he a s e r-ies of whoop-dees made by the bikes. Why ar e they there ? Because that's wh ere everybody rides. When you see whoops, you are lou king a t the place everybody rides. You a re looking a t the groove. There's a little message there. Find a wa y to miss the whoops if possihle . Sl a y righ I or left o n the track, l.ook at th e turn and sec where you have to co m e o u t of th at tum so you d ori 't land right in the middle of the whoop-d ee-d os. Hit the bumps You don"t alway s d ecide to miss the bumps. If they covcr a relatively shorl distance and by riding th rough them you can h old a good line, then you ride through them. You have 10 think about the line a nd also about the at t it ude of the bike d ue 10 the bumps or rough stuff', :\ hole or a lip on the lop o f a hill ca n flip th e rear end up if you lei it and then you may not h e a b le 10 hold the line yo u sele c ted. When you arc wa lking and loo kin g y o u w ill sce some of th e proh lcms and then you plan your ridi ng tech n iq u e so y o u Slay in co n tro l. Miss the bumps How do you decide which line is quickest? You can ' t s to p wh en you r h ack wheel is bouncing around a nd th e mot orcycl e is in the air half of the lime. You ca n co nsid e r slowing down before you gel to the rough place hu t you would only Notice, I said qu ic k est ! \Vc all us c words lik e fas tes t , hauling, ge tting o n it, zoo ming, and things like that to talk about gcu ing around the tr ack quickly. Th e basic cle m e n t is lime . 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