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I'm not an experienced rider but I did find this with my Kawasaki which always wanted to stand up mid corner whereas I had a Suzuki GSR which just went where you wanted, almost steering by itself telepathically. So it may be to do with the geometry of the bike you're on too.
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To use an old forum trope, don’t lean. Or rather, don’t lean the bike as much.
Starting at the top
Look where you want to go
Slightly bend the inside arm, this will bring your upper body weight to the inside allowing the bike to stay more upright.
Put your weight on your inside butt cheek, if you’re doing track stuff feel free to bring your arse over so the inside butt cheek is hanging off the saddle but for road just put the weight on the inner cheek and stay centred on the saddle.
Have your inside ball of your foot on the pegs and move the outer foot forward so the arch is on the peg
Keep your knees and toes inThis is different to low speed stuff you learn for mod 1 where you pivot turn by shifting your body weight to the outside butt cheek and lean the bike over more, you only do those turns in 1st gear.
Finally, you could be accelerating too early, at the beginning you should be almost lined up for the straight before giving it the beans. Then over time you can try earlier and earlier pulls out of the bends.
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Check your tyres for wear and pressure.
I had a ‘bad’ tyre on a bike and the bike would not turn - this took a few weeks to diagnose as the tyre looked fine and was up to correct pressures. New tyre fitted and everything was fine.
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It depends on the turn for me - if it’s a 90° junction with parked cars then I wouldn’t really accelerate much until pretty much straight. On the other hand, on a sweeping country road where you can see everything, use the that trait to your advantage - tip in late and hard then use the throttle to bring the bike back upright.
For really slow stuff, just remember that you are in control of everything - if it feels too fast, ease off a bit or even drag the rear brake to stabilise.
If you’re getting it really wrong in the moment, a forced counter steer will get you round for another day, although it feels really unnatural.
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as a beginning rider, i find the tendency of the motorcycle to want to straighten out when accelerating out of low to moderate speed turns (city riding) hard to control. I feel i just have to back off the throttle and let the bike fall back into the turn. I'm not riding fast or anything.
advice? i mean i guess the answer is just more lean angle, but it feels aggressive to me.
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