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Chak-
Brilliant. It looks like he's physically yanking the bike through the corners.
He was sublime to watch. He rocked up at the Japanese GP at 18 years of age, nobody knowing who he was, and come the race, was beating the giants of Mick Doohan and Kevin Schwantz at his first attempt, until he crashed out. Phenomenal.
Sadly taken from us at only 32 by a truck performing an illegal U-turn in front of him back in Japan several years ago. He was riding a scooter...
FujiRacer
Very nice, either Criville or Gibernau's bike next to it. Criville won 1999's title but I believe Gibernau's bike is in the museum as it's the NSR500 V-twin (with single-sided swingarm)
As for riding styles, Colin Edwards was also hard on the front end (lolz) just to get the things to turn. But few had as much class and style as the late, great Norick Abe, a style whose I was fortunate enough to witness in action in the flesh a few times: