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• The most important thing to remember about steering is that the more skillfully you use your body’s weight as a lever, the less force you will need to apply to the controls, and the more precise your steering will become.
• In his best-selling book Outliers, author Malcolm Gladwell identifies 10,000 hours as the necessary amount of practice to achieve mastery of a physical or mental activity.
• The best practice for looking through turns is to set up a circle in a clean parking lot and have a buddy stand in the center of it. You should be able to look through him for an entire revolution. He will be able to tell if you panic and look forward because he will be watching your eyes. This is much more difficult than it sounds but can be learn...
• The first cornering problem is turning too soon. Not turning quickly enough at the entrance is the second problem. And the last problem is making numerous mid-turn corrections as you ride through the corner.