Hi guys,

I'm new to this forum and I've got an problem. My riding style is about the same as Streetfight3r in the image attached. With my 6 ft. 4 I can hang off plenty. :yumyum

I after doing the Californian Superbike school I tried fucussing on a relaxed upper body. since then I have a hard time to hang off. Somehow if I do it feels like falling off on the inside. It seems that I need to hang onto the bars to be able to hang off the bike...which isn't good on turn entry.

How do you guys hang off and keep a loose grip on the bars? Is it all leg work or I'm I missing something here. Would it be helpfull to straighten my upperbody and arms to shift some weight of the bars? :dunno

Rene
GSXR 750 Netherlands

your outside heel, and leg. and your stomach and back muscles.

you look to have pretty good form, feet placement and upperbody. if anything you could get a little more forward and down with your upper body.

that will aid you weighting the front, and getting more aggresive with your cornering.

weight your outside peg, less on your inside peg

Outside arm hugging the tank may help but not everyone does it or finds it comfortable

At the cali superbike school they sujest to place your ass as back as posible. I havent figure out yet were does this help put deffinetly doesnt help locking your self on the bike.
try not to hang off the bike that much only one chik of your ass and try to lock everything from waist doen on the bike. A good poit to lock (which is often overlooked) it is your upper leg (next to your nuts) against the tunk.
Try the obove on the site stand. If you are able to remove your hand s from the bars and your not falling off you got it.

I'm not sure exactly how I do it but I think that the joint (behind my knee cap) is hooked onto the side of the seat. To tell you the truth your form doesn't look bad at all. The problem is that you're probably unable to keep your hands loose enough to take your left hand off because you're in a completely neutral seating position. Try scooting your butt back on the seat and move your ass along with your upper body over to the side.

The farther you move your ass back the less you need to hang off to get that "leg hooking onto seat" thing. Don't forget to rotate your hip and shoulder so that its pointing towards the turn.

Thanks for the input.
It gives me something to try out. Definitely I need to be able to lock myself in the hanging-off position using only my lower body strenght according to you.
Getting back into the seat and over to the other side will be difficult to do fast without the use of your arms, but I'll practise it. Using the backside of my knee to lock on is a bit extreme. I did that and was hanging off so much that I couldn't see my helmet on pictures taken from the outside of the curve/bent.
I'm tall and I can hang-off Hopkins style in fast curves. But that involved almost pulling the grip of the inside bar.....not good.:nono

Hey, looks pretty good to me. I`m no racer, but from what I`ve learned, the key is not just `hanging off`, but kinda twisting your body into the turn. This technique works for me pretty well...My `outside`thigh should be resting, (but not buried) on the seat, with my chest facing the tank at about 45 degrees, or thereabouts and my `inside`shoulder leading into the corner. This brings my weight forward and low, but fairly close to the bike, not out and waving in the wind. This keeps my weight over the front wheel, minimising the dreaded `lowside`. As I said I`m no expert, but it seems to work for me....hope it helps