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Course Outline

  • Keep your hips over or slightly in front of the footpegs. Lean your upper body forward.
  • Press your feet down and back into the footpegs, which will help you counter the force pushing you rearward.
  • Practice shifting until you can coordinate the throttle, clutch, and shifter into one smooth, quick motion.
  • Run through acceleration drills to improve your control skills.
    1. Accelerate hard until you reach third gear.
    2. Stop accelerating.
    3. Apply the brakes.
    4. Come to a complete stop.
    5. Repeat steps 1–4. As your skills improve, you will notice the following.
      • Step 3 comes closer to Step 2 until they occur at the same time.
      • Step 4 occurs much closer to Step 3.
OHM parts: Clutch lever and shifter labeled
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