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Advanced Motorcycle Riding Course: Overtaking - right handers
By Andy Morrison on 23/08/2010 15:18:29
The thorny subject of overtaking safely on the exit of a right-hand bend
“What’s the best position to follow a vehicle through a right-hander I’m intending to overtake?” It varies according to the circumstances. You might think this will always be a position close to the left because that’s where you’d position if you
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Advanced Motorcycle Riding Course: Cornering - left-handers
By Sergeant Richard Breeze on 23/08/2010 16:45:24
More riders mess up on lefthand bends than in just about any other situation. Panic has a lot to do with how we can get things wrong and then make things worse
It was a warm dry lunchtime on a road much used by bikers for the smooth road surface, national speed limit and multitude of corners that make riding a bike so much fun.In the apex of this bend there was a Ford Mondeo, with both the nearside wheels on their relative nearside gras...
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Yamaha R1 rider loses front end on right hander
By Visordown News on 29/03/2010 12:08:11
Another day, another drop on the Mulholland Highway
ANOTHER QUICK clip of some poor chap losing the front end of his Yamaha R1 on the notoriously dusty Mulholland Highway, California.The twisty, testing route is a mecca for car and bike enthusiasts; many of the road's tricky bends have caught out the unaware.
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Yamaha R1 rider lowsides on left-hander
By Visordown News on 23/03/2010 10:04:55
Lucky escape as sportsbike rider evades potential highside
THIS GUY'S lucky he doesn't get flicked over the top, after losing the back end of his Yamaha YZF-R1 on a twisty section of mountain road.He looks pretty miffed at the result; we think he got away lightly. It could have been soooo much worse if the rear tyre had gripped and lobbe...
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Sidestand! SIDESTAND!
By mark forsyth on 21/04/2011 16:48:15
Wait for that first left-hander and wince...
There are several downsides to being the last man out onto the track and here's one of 'em...
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Brands Hatch circuit to be revised
By Visordown News on 14/12/2011 09:52:44
Brands Hatch's niggly left-hander to undergo modifications
MOTORSPORT Vision, the owners of Brands Hatch circuit, have submitted plans to alter Graham Hill bend in 2012.MSV want to change the track running up to the corner from Druids, making it totally straight and removing the kink. Graham Hill bend itself will also be altered to becom...
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New Donington Park track layout
By Visordown News on 08/09/2008 09:42:56
200mph straight - Lukey Heights-style swooping left-hander - check out the first official plans for the East Midlands circuit
Heights-style left-hander.It should be awesome. We can't wait for the first trackday to kick off!
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MotoGP: Assen circuit safety in doubt
By Mike Scott on 01/07/2008 08:50:11
Questions raised over ultra-fast left-hander following third bone-breaking smash in three years
JOHN HOPKIN'S terrifying high-speed crash raised new safety questions about the fast left-hand Ramshoek corner, one of few remaining sections of the old track. The same corner had earlier accounted for Capirossi, putting him out of the race.Last year Toni Elias suffered a fractur...
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Advanced Motorcycle Riding Course: Cornering - learning curve
By PC Marcus McCormick on 23/08/2010 16:49:17
PC Marcus McCormick, a West Midlands Police Bike Instructor, offers some solutions to developing corner confidence...
Ask any motorcyclist what aspect of his riding he most wants to improve and 99 per cent will say cornering. Apart from the massive acceleration differences, cornering and banking-over are the biggest differences between us and car drivers. And isn’t that one of the main reasons w...
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MotoGP: British GP to Silverstone in 2010
By Visordown News on 07/05/2008 13:26:35
Donington Park to lose Brit GP after Northamptonshire circuit secures premier motorcycle event for 2010
the prestigious motorcycle racing event after an agreement was reached between FIA safety officials and the track's owners about Bridge Corner - the fast right-hander leading up to the new Luffield complex - as it was deemed unsafe for MotoGP competition
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