Over braking by charging into turns like a bowling ball is guaranteed to crank up your stress levels, induce fatigue and increase your lap time. Yes, I said increase your lap time. In the worst-case scenario, you could turn into an actual bowling ball and take...
I FEEL THE NEED, THE NEED, FOR SPEED Allow me to pose a notion to you. The fastest part of any track is a straight. To the extent that this is true, would you agree that increasing the speed you travel along a straight will lower your lap time? If you answered yes,...
COAST AND YOU’RE TOAST Come on, admit it. You coast, don’t you? By coast, I am not referring to cruising past a beach boulevard admiring the sights. No, the coast I am referring to is the gap, or time differential, between control inputs while riding your motorcycle. ...
JUST RELAX, OK? To go fast, you must be relaxed on the bike. Heard that before? Yeah, me too. The problem is, as you work to go faster on track, you tend to do the opposite. High speed, cornering and braking forces can turn you into a pretzel, your muscles tight and...
QUARTARARO – BEST OF THE YAMAHA PILOTS Since arriving in MotoGP, Fabio Quartararo has been the pick of the Yamaha riders. No one else has been able to be as consistently fast as he has. You could argue that is an easy task considering the relative inconsistency of the...