Thread: Handling Drills
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Old 02-15-05 | 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by DXchulo
How many of you guys set aside some time to concentrate on cornering/handling? I know you can try a few things on any old ride, but how many of you set specific times to focus on this and nothing else?

If you do, what things do you do?

I'm going to start doing this as soon as the weather cooperates for more than a few days. There are plenty of empty parking lots and little cul de sacs around here. I have officially used "cul de sac" in a sentence.
The biggest trouble I have with drills is getting up to a normal speed, that is in a parking lot it can be metally difficult (the physical part is a great work out) to get up to 22-25mph, then execute a drill while maintaining the flow that you'd have on a normal ride. So instead for some rides where there are lots of corners, etc. I focus on these elements.
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