How To U-Turn Any Motorcycle! ~ MotoJitsu

hello everyone fast study here so this video is gonna be about how to do a u-turn or a slow speed turn on a motorcycle so there's been a bunch of other videos I made about how to drag your knee in one hour I'm the same exact parking lot I was for that video so this is specifically what I'm doing and what I'm thinking about when I make it in very low speed turns so if you have to make a u-turn on the street or if you're in a gas station and it's really crowded you only have a little bit of room to make a u-turn so how do you do that without going back and forth and making a 50-point turn you know you want the cool points just make a quick u-turn and go so a lot of people have disregard slower speed techniques because like ah it's no big deal it's all about going fast and going to the track but if you find a rider that's really good at slower speed skills like really tight technical turns and full lock turns everything else they're probably really good at faster speed because the fundamentals are there and they have a really good understanding of a bike so hopefully this video will give you a better understanding of what to go practice and what I'm doing when I'm practicing low speed so first just general when you're going fast the bikes moving quickly right so if you're going left to a corner you're going fast so gravity if you're the bikes leaned over going left gravity makes the bike want to fall over just leaned it just wants to fall but since you're going fast you have this technical term called centrifugal force throwing the bike to the outside so it's the balance of those two things while the bike doesn't fall but if you go five miles power lean the bike over it's probably gonna fall over so for low speed maneuvers one of the key big things to do for lower speed is you're not going fast enough to keep the bike upright just the weight of the bike is gonna overcome it the gravity just pulls the bike over so when you're going really slow you want to use your weight your body to get to the opposite side of the bike to balance it so it doesn't fall so if I have a big old bike leaning left I only get all of my weight over to the opposite side of the bike so my weight will compensate for the bike falling that way that's counter balancing I'm balancing the bike preventing it from falling over by getting my way to the opposite side counter balancing so it's kind of like Mother video I mean if you're going faster you're going left you want to get your head and your midline your whole side of your body to the inside of the bike if you're going faster speed left but now if you're going slower speed left just now you're gonna push the bike down to do a really tight turn and I already get all your weight your body your centerline your head over to the opposite side of the bike it's still going left but now you're just going slower so to give you a little bit better idea what I'm talking about so check this out so I'm on a bike and if I want to go left so the handlebars gonna be turned to the left the bikes leaning to the left now if I lean to the left right now to the inside like I'm going fast me and the bike are gonna tip over I'm going five miles per hour and I don't have the centripetal force and blah blah blah to keep the bike company so when you're going slow you want to get your blade and this is when you're stomping down all of your weight is on the opposite foot peg you can even see the bike the other bikes already moving just my weight is coming over here all my weights to the opposite side of the bike so if I'm going faster speed I'm to the inside like this my head is by my mirror my centerline is only over to the inside and this I do faster speed so for lower speed do the exact opposite now get your weight to the opposite mirror your head over here your centerline over here your butt 1/2 cheek off the other direction and now your weights on that side now I'm balancing the bike with my weight the bikes falling that way and all my weight is over here that's the one of the main things you want to do to practice lower speed techniques first thing now I'm not gonna say too much about a rear brake so if I'm doing a really technical stuff I'm just practicing full lock turns or seen online good balance I drag the rear brake I kind of just push down on it just all the bike down however if you want to do that after you already have the fundamentals down go for it I do that too but you get it really good understanding there's only two controls and you don't worry about the clutch in the throttle just practice that for a while don't even worry about the brakes keep your toes and the foot pegs no brakes so the main technique is counter balancing get all your weight to the opposite side when you're doing low speed stuff and then their controls you want to worry about is just to clutch in the throttle so if you ever feel like say you're practicing a left hand you turn a lot of people do this they get the feeling like all the bikes for the fall have to put the foot down like golly I'll lift the bike back up so if you're going really slow to the left and you pull in the clutch you just cut off all the power to the rear wheel now you just have a 500 pound piece of metal that's gonna fall over so you have to have a little bit of power going to the bike to keep the thing upright so if you're going to the left if you pull the clutch in and cut power at the bikes gonna fall so you have to have it in the zone a little bit the friction zone you're riding the clutch or slipping the clutch to keep power a little bit to the wheel now one interesting thing with the throttle so you have to have a little bit of power so I recommend just raising the RPM up a little bit like you always have power and then you're just kind of going in and out of power with the clutch the prowl isn't doing a thing it's one of the variables you have to use but you could kind of forget about it if you just hold it steady you keep the power up a little bit so you always have power there but you're really regularly regulating your speed and if the bikes gonna tip or not with the clutch so you're slowly I mean I'm talking about a half-inch like millimeters at a time you're just in that part where you either go or you're not going you really have to play with that's a very very fine slow skill with your clutch you're not pulling all the way in and releasing it all the way out that leg is just gonna go crazy very slow movements so hold the thought the throttle steady slip the clutch provide the clutch and just gotta play with that you have to get over the fear of what if I drop my bike that's why I recommend it if you buy anything for the bike get crash bars practicing lower-speed stuff I have dropped this bike in a parking lot go on five miles power at least seven or eight times it hits this it hits that it hits my rear peg it hits this thing whatever it doesn't touch the bike get the bike tips over I don't care I learned something I picked it right back up and I keep practicing one of the biggest things I've learned about lower speed techniques are from the lessons I learned after I've dropped it I realized wow if I really do that is gonna fall I have to do something different so you got to be a fret you got to not be afraid to drop the bike if you have no engine guards or engine cases or crash bars I would definitely be afraid go get those things before practicing but I get some protection on your bike so just like the other video I made about faster speeds it's the same thing for lower speeds whenever you're going through any turn the three things I recommend doing in this order is get your body set up and then you turn your head and then turn the bike so a body head bike so if I'm going through a left-hand slow turn I get my by position set up to the opposite side I turn my head and look where I want to go and this is where you really need to point your chin where you want to go imagine you have an arrow glued to your chin and I'm going left my eyes are pointing that way that's not my chin so point your whole chin where you want to go and for lower speed you want to try to look at your license plate if you're making a really tight left u-turn you go where you look so if you're looking right there you're probably go directly to the ground so body head look where you want to end up like way over there turn your head and then you turn the bike this is the opposite of faster speed again so faster speed turns you want the bike to be upright as possible so suspension could do this job less lean less risk etc but for lower speed turns like this you got to lean the bike very very far in order to make a tight turn if you keep the bike upright and try to make a left turn just by leaning at that much it's gonna be a 50-foot huge left turn but if you lean the bike this far that's gonna make a very very tight turn so you got to push the bike down kinda like your handlebars on a shovel shovel that bike down push it down you don't want it to fall over get all your weight to the opposite side so get your body head and then you turn the bike slipping the clutch throttle no brake and just getting your bite to the opposite side it's not a jump on I'll do a couple u-turns right here in the big parking lot and pay attention to what I'm doing with the lines this is in my moto Jitsu Club there's level 4 to one but there's a parking spot just try to go down in the middle of one skip one go down the middle the other one you can just kind of go back and forth like that I'll do that for a couple times I'll be talking explaining and then I'll try to do within four parking spots try to do a figure eight between that and this is something you can literally practice for hours how consistent can you be I'll relax can you be how tight the circle you can get etc check it out again anytime you do anything out of motorcycle if you're not fully geared up that's a hell of a risk I would not recommend jumping on a bike without all of your gear all right so pay attention to what I'm doing body head bike body head bike flipping the clutch a little bit of throttle no brakes [Music] [Music] [Music] so if you heard my throttle a little bit so I have a little bit of power to keep the bike going very slow slow slipping the clutch so I'm gonna do the same thing but I only do a demonstration I'm gonna Rev the throttle because to show you that the throttles are relevant you can have it full throttle if you want to but the main thing is slipping the clutch very slowly with the class have just a little bit of power [Music] so again the throttle is just a variable you have to have a little bit of power but it's all in the clutch the reason why I wasn't taking off or willing or going crazy because I'm just limiting the power with the clutch that is the key thing but if you noticed all of my witness to the opposite side of the bike that like weighs 500 pounds but it's not tipping over going 2 miles power because all of my weight I am literally standing on the outside peg if my weight is over here the bike is falling that way no problem the bike won't fall but again practicing what I just did especially with no brakes I have dropped this bike five or six times but once you get over the fear of dropping your bike and it happens lesson learned pick it back up and just keep on practicing so I'm doing one more demonstration of the same types of thing but now I'm going to drag the rear brake a little bit just to show you what you can do when you keep on practicing if you start to add the brakes you can go away slower and start to try to balance the bike and just get more comfortable with it [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so with just a little bit of rear break I'm able to slow the bike down get the full lock and just try to practice balancing I get if you look at my foot on the brake I'm not doing this I'm not moving my foot back and forth my foot stays like this I'm just slowly pushing down a little bit of pressure and slowly releasing it so think about like 10 20 30 40 50 40 35 40 45 50 that's what I'm doing with the rear brake just to slow the bike down a little bit but I'm controlling the speed with the clubs but if I get a little bit momentum going only way to slow it down it's completely pulling the clutch then I'm coasting that way the bike could fall over so I keep the RPMs up I just sold the bike down a little bit with the rear brake but I had to just practice see what I just did no brakes he used to the throttle play with the clutch counterbalance point your chin look where you want to go practice practice practice if you do those things they guarantee if you just practice 10 minutes a day within a couple weeks of practicing anything tennis today you're gonna be pretty good at it there's always time to practice you could do it right before you go home right before you get gassed at the gas station in your practice couple u-turns just practice practice practice practice I hope this made sense if you have any comments feel free to type them up I'll reply back to you thanks for watching don't forget to subscribe and I'll see you next time

Channel: MotoJitsu

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Keywords: u-turn, MotoJitsu, beginner motorcycle tips

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Length: 13min 58sec (838 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 17 2018