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Squaring off corners - March 2012Squaring off corners takes a technique called; Brake Slide/Power Slide (BSPS). This is an advanced technique but with understanding and practice it can be added to your arsenal. First you have to be able to do all the regular cornering techniques perfectly. Then with the proper timing and precision of your body movements and the controls of the M/C (in this case the front and rear brakes and the clutch and throttle) you’ll get this technique nailed down. You can make up a lot of time in certain corners by smoothly going from backing it in with the brakes to power sliding it out with the clutch and throttle. It's also an excellent passing move.
How to; Keep the throttle on until the last millisecond where you can still make the corner. As soon as you shut off the throttle you should be braking with both rear and front brakes, with the clutch out, as hard as possible without killing the engine. This should put the bike in a bit of a drift slide. Control the brakes keeping it in the drift slide until the transition part of the corner. At this point you need to pull in the clutch and lock up the rear wheel, putting it into a brake slide. Then before you stop the brake slide you need to go to the power slide with the clutch and throttle. This way the rear of the bike goes from brake slide to power slide in one fluid motion. It will not work in berms. It works best in tighter corners that don’t have much traction.
If the corner is really tight this can be done in one place in the corner. In other words you would pivot the bike in one spot in the corner and go; squaring it up from that point and exiting the corner. On corners that are a little wider you would pivot the bike through the corner on an arch; pivoting it though a section of the corner instead of in one spot. The BSPS is always done at the Transition part of the corner (where you go from braking to accelerating).
With the correct type of practice you’ll be doing it too and passing your competition while they are still off the gas.
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