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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
will do about 20mph through a 20 mph corner so the chances are the only option you have is to follow her into the nearside to negotiate the right-hander safely yourself. On the other side of the coin very few drivers will be travelling at 100mph
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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
of the Ford. The nearside mark was 7 metres long and led up to the front nearside tyre. The second mark was only 2 metres long and was set 1.43 metres apart from the first tyre scuff. This separation in the marks matched the track width of the front wheels
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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
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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
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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
itself will also be altered to become a constant radius left.The plans, if approved, won't affect the circuit for the 2012 season as construction would take place towards the end of the year.The corner, which was called Bottom Bend until 1976, has been
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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
of years.If you take a close look at the drawings you'll see Foggy Esses will be removed to make way for a 1-mile-long 200mph straight. Goddards (the hairpin that leads onto the start/finish straight) is also to go, making way for a swooping, long Lukey
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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...
controlled by his survival reactions and can’t see a way out at that point. Consider vehicles exiting the bend towards you, are they travelling quickly relative to their design. A Citroen 2CV exiting at 60 mph has probably carried that speed through
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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
Alterations will be made to comply with FIA demandsINSIDE SOURCES have told visordown news that Silverstone circuit in Northamptonshire is to host the British Motorcycle Grand Prix from 2010.Apparently the Northamptonshire-based track has secured
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