With these techniques you'll never fear dropping that heavy bike again!

hey motorman here and this is our class from this past sunday we had the usual group of writers writers that come to my class generally have years of experience but really no experience at maneuvering at low speeds or leaning turning and swerving quickly that's what we teach them and a lot of people ask me how we can do so much in such a short amount of time usually classes are about four or five hours but we start easily with the slow race then we take it to what you see here the slow cone weave and of course we demonstrate it we walk the riders through it and then it's up to them we can take them for this level which looks pretty bad to this level this is about maybe an hour 40 minutes into the class and already they look like a practice drill team each exercise builds towards the next as we go along they get more difficult but because they've mastered the previous exercise it's really not that difficult we walk them through the exercise we show it to them we demonstrate each exercise and then it's up to the riders and of course they're going to make mistakes that's what happens but as we go along i'll stop the writers occasionally i'll explain to if they're making a mistake and what they should do as you see right here if you're trying to steer through it with the bike straight up it makes it very difficult if the speed is five miles an hour or below chances are the bike's gonna fall if you get up to eight to ten miles an hour and just turn those bars they cannot fall over so you need a little more speed make sure you're slipping that clutch the whole time all right [Music] in order to dip the bike and feel confident at doing it you got to have a little speed at five miles an hour or below the bike could fall down anything above five it won't fall so speed through here should be about eight miles an hour so slipping that clutch looking ahead don't try to steer straight up it's hard feel that bike different from side to side that's the point of the exercise a little faster after the riders do a pretty good job at the slow cone weave and the big u-turn we have at the end of that weave that u-turn is about 30-32 feet or so we move on to this exercise and this is the offset cone weave this exercise has the riders transitioning quickly from complete left lean to complete right lean it's very helpful out on the road if somebody pulls out in front of you you don't have time to stop you better be able to transition quickly we also have some variations on this exercise that donna just demonstrated where we put some circles into it we spend about somewhere between 40 minutes to an hour on each of the exercises we want to make sure the riders have a good handle on how to transition that bike quickly from left to right and right to left as they get better at it we'll add some circles to this since there's no straight part to a circle you tell the writers you got to keep your head turned the entire time gotta master that hedonized technique if the writers are having a problem we'll give them some one-on-one training we'll even take some of the riders and move them along and keep some other riders here in this exercise next we'll move on to the intersection and we'll start with making a single u-turn in just one of the legs of the intersection since the writers have already made half circles in the last exercise they usually catch on to the u-turn very quickly even though the space here is a little bit tighter once the u-turn is mastered the single u-turn the writers get to go through the entire intersection the intersection has you making u-turns and transitioning quickly from left to right at first they'll go through it one bike at a time and then for another challenge i put all the motorcycles in there as long as the rider is looking where he wants to go and not paying attention to the other riders there's never a problem they just keep getting better and better when i see that the writers are really comfortable with running the entire intersection with a group of riders i have down to demonstrate doing a circle and a half in two of the legs of the intersection so you have a circle and a half in the first leg regular u-turn in the second leg and in the third leg another circle and a half circles are important because it forces you to use your head knives and keep your head and eyes turned the entire time you're making the circle since there's no straight part to a circle now of course it's the writer's term to give this a try and this class actually did extremely well in this general will have some problems with riders turning a little too wide or going outside of the leg but these riders caught on very quick there's no explanation for why some writers are or some classes are better than others it's it just depends you never know but at the end everybody improves at least a hundred percent and usually much more next thing i usually do is reverse the entire intersection so that all the u-turns are to the right is you got to be as good to the right as you are to the left and then we'll be able to introduce the figure eight within one leg of the intersection since they've already made right hand u-turns the figure eight should be fairly easy of course all the writers are always tentative as i change something but just two or three times through they get the hang of it and as i said improvements are just amazing in a very short amount of time this is probably oh two hours and 10 or 15 minutes into the class and they're already making figure eights within 24 feet and keep in mind these are eight nine hundred pound motorcycles i often hear from european riders that well we got to do that just to get our license yeah but they're doing it on little 125 cc bikes try it on a 900 pound bike it's a whole different ball game especially when you got that fear of dropping the bike i always tell people if you got a 20 000 or motorcycle or even more get some motorcycle drop guards takes away that fear gotta walk before you can run all right this is a motorcycle that you saw in that terrible uh drop much more severe than normal and as you can see motorcycle drop cars did their job there's just a little pavement on there nothing in the back no actual part of the motorcycle touches the ground this is the best investment if you're worried about dropping your bike even if you're not worried about it this is wonderful insurance motorcycle drop guards.com now we move on to the snowman what most people consider the most difficult exercise now i've sped this up this is about twice as fast as the writers are actually going just so that i can get more writers through this on this video we've only got about 10-minute video keep in mind the class does run four or five hours and i can't of course make a four or five hour video nobody would watch it but more writers in this class made it through on the very first time that i think any class i've had in months this rider had been here before and he does a good job he comes back at least once a year to keep his skills up again we're about twice as fast as they're actually going here another rider doing a great job using his head and eyes using all the space available and making it through the most difficult what would people consider the most difficult only because there's so many cones in a confined space and if you look at the cone directly in front of you well you tend to hit it this rider was probably our most timid but he did get the the hang of it towards the end and did a very good job if he keeps his practice up i'd say come back in a two or three months of course when writers come back within a year we give him a half price discount and this rider if you might remember you saw in the very first shot sort of almost duck walking his bike through the slow cone weave he improved tremendously when i chase the writers through i'm yelling to them to look at the green cone each time they get near the first green cone i tell them turn your head look at the next one and the next one because your brain always tells you a little bit too late this class was so good i played a little follow the leader with them when doing this the riders don't actually know what i'm going to do all they've got to do is follow the bike in front here i'm surprising them with a circle in the intersection they didn't know i was going to do that but since all they got to do is watch and trust the rider in front it's no problem now i hope you like these videos i hope you learned something by him and please subscribe give me a thumbs up don't forget to click that notification bell so every time i come out with a new video you get to see it in your email and we usually do two videos a week sometimes even three and i want to also thank these writers for allowing me to put them on youtube everyone who's on youtube signs a waiver they tell me they don't want to be on youtube which is very rare of course don't show them on the video so till next time keep your head and eyes up friction zone little pressure on the rear brake that's all there is to it

Channel: Ride Like a Pro Jerry Palladino

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Length: 10min 15sec (615 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 23 2021