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and the Yamaha YZF-R1 superbike on
which he was so accustomed?
"On a superbike, you can do so
much with the bike to make it turn,"
Beaubier said. "There's so much
weight and G-force to carve through
the corners. You don't really need to
hang off the thing too much, but these
things [Moto2]… that's been a super
big adaptation for me, just trying to
change my style after riding a certain
way for the six or seven years I've been
on a superbike.
"That's been tough, especially when
you've got to go as fast as you can.
Then that stuff kind of goes out the
window. On a superbike, I was used
to having traction control and super-
advanced engine brake settings where
you can pretty much dial the thing in
corner-by-corner, like Yamaha and At-
tack would on superbikes.
"On the Moto2 bike, you've got to
use the rear brake a lot more. So, I
started getting used to a thumb brake,
and I rarely used the rear brake on a
superbike. Using the rear brake on the
Moto2 bike really helps you to get the
thing to turn and stabilize it. Super-
bikes, you can ride them hard, throw
Trying to tame the
Kalex bronco at
the Sachsenring in
Germany this year.
