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Do cyclists make better motorcyclists?
Do the 2-wheel skills go along when you use a metal motor?
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dw wrote:
Do the 2-wheel skills go along when you use a metal motor? Probably, because you'll be more cautious than someone coming from an exclusively car-centric background. The first thing most people who go from bicycle to motorbike notice is how cold they get. Even greater windchill than a bike and no corresponding heat-producing effort. |
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dw wrote:
Do the 2-wheel skills go along when you use a metal motor? Probably, because you'll be more cautious than someone coming from an exclusively car-centric background. The first thing most people who go from bicycle to motorbike notice is how cold they get. Even greater windchill than a bike and no corresponding heat-producing effort. |
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wrote in message ... Cornering isn't terribly important on bicycles, despite our proud claims to the contrary. You don't hear much about Lance Armstrong out-cornering the competition because bicycling is mostly slow-motion drag-racing. We usually pedal around at speeds so low that we wouldn't catch the eye of a traffic cop running a speed trap in a school zone. Carl Fogel Cornering isn't terribly important on bicycles? Have to disagree, and you may too if you've ever been in fast descents on a bicycle, where picking your line is important. I'm not sure if you remember the 1997 Tour de France when Richard Virenque was trying to put Jan Ullrich at great risk in the corners on one of the mountain states. The roads were wet and slick as Jan had pretty poor descending skills in the rain. Virenque knew this and took advantage of his winter training in the French alps. Ullrich nearly crashed and could have changed the outcome of the finish of the Tour, but he played it safe and let Richard have his day. Ulrich went on to win the Tour and the rest is history. I ride both, motorcycles, and bicycles, and ride them fast in the corners if I'm familiar with the road, or can visibly see the road ahead. Cornering on a motorcycle and cornering on a bicycle are two different things. Throttle plays an important role in corning on a motorcycle, something you don't have on a bicycles. As far as picking lines, it's about the same. -tom |
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wrote in message ... Cornering isn't terribly important on bicycles, despite our proud claims to the contrary. You don't hear much about Lance Armstrong out-cornering the competition because bicycling is mostly slow-motion drag-racing. We usually pedal around at speeds so low that we wouldn't catch the eye of a traffic cop running a speed trap in a school zone. Carl Fogel Cornering isn't terribly important on bicycles? Have to disagree, and you may too if you've ever been in fast descents on a bicycle, where picking your line is important. I'm not sure if you remember the 1997 Tour de France when Richard Virenque was trying to put Jan Ullrich at great risk in the corners on one of the mountain states. The roads were wet and slick as Jan had pretty poor descending skills in the rain. Virenque knew this and took advantage of his winter training in the French alps. Ullrich nearly crashed and could have changed the outcome of the finish of the Tour, but he played it safe and let Richard have his day. Ulrich went on to win the Tour and the rest is history. I ride both, motorcycles, and bicycles, and ride them fast in the corners if I'm familiar with the road, or can visibly see the road ahead. Cornering on a motorcycle and cornering on a bicycle are two different things. Throttle plays an important role in corning on a motorcycle, something you don't have on a bicycles. As far as picking lines, it's about the same. -tom |
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Do the 2-wheel skills go along when you use a metal motor?
If I'm any indication, the answer is no. And I've raced a couple hundred crits in my lifetime. |
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Do the 2-wheel skills go along when you use a metal motor?
If I'm any indication, the answer is no. And I've raced a couple hundred crits in my lifetime. |
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Eric Lambi writes:
Do the 2-wheel skills go along when you use a metal motor? If I'm any indication, the answer is no. And I've raced a couple hundred crits in my lifetime. I agree, although I think the opposite is true. A rider who corners fast on a moto is fast and that skill is transferable to cornering on a bicycle. That doesn't mean he'll be a strong bicyclist though. Jobst Brandt |
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