Advice on cornering and racing!!

New2cycle

Hi I'm now on the bike about 9 months.. I started racing recently and have won a race and if i place in my next one will be moved to A3.. However my cornering is shocking and descend like a granny!!! Also i dunno wud i have the endurance for 100k races as A4 are only 60k or under!! Any advice for A3 training and cornering would be much appreciated... My bike skills are minimal to say the least but have good power. I have TT'ed twice over 10 mile and have gone sub 23mins.. My goal is to get this around the 21 mark!!! Also any help here would be great..

Lumen

Attack from the gun.

fat bloke

I'd consider myself pretty handy around corners, I rode motorbikes for a good while and did some track riding (motorbikes) as well, and I'm constantly amazed at how many people in the likes of the club league and open racing are very hesitant in the corners. I'm only a very average club rider but I always make it my business to be first into any of the tight corners if I can, cos simply by riding around the corner I can open up 50, 60, 70 yard gaps around the other side. -It's not than I'm saying I'm amazingly good at it, but a lot of other riders are shockingly poor. Sweeping open bends with no need to brake and lads are hammering on the anchors and nearly walking around them.

Going around Mondello there last month I was nearly laughing out loud. There's a wide open corner on the back section that you could probably take at 90mph or more in a car, and on that same section the cyclists on the front of the group were braking from maybe 30kph to set up for that same corner - insane, inexplicable stuff.

As for how to learn to corner. That's another story. I'm all for discretion over valour on the roads but generally speaking the limits of adhesion and cornering are much further away than you think they are.

Esroh

http://www.flammerouge.je/content/3_factsheets/2006/descend.htm

A good read. Putting it into practice is not easy