sorry for the confusion up top for some reason i was thinking downshift, which like al said...is a no no.
yes long sweepers you pretty much have to shift or like you said, you'd run out of RPMs, for shorter ones, high rpms, late braking, delay apex and then hard throttle out so really no need to shift until you're coming out of the apex. i try to get my RPMs just right when i can, but it's not always possible.

check this out, you have a long left sweeper, you're hauling and already dragging knee, then run out of RPMs...you gotta shift, but you feet can't get under the shifter without scraping...hence...bust out the reverse shift!

 

Is that really the reason for reverse shift? I never understood why it was opposite of regular street bikes.

 

akevinci,,, whos that?
Thats exactly what Im talking about. Shift only when you need to; however, you should estimate at what speed can you do this curve to begin with; of course this takes time to learn. Try to go into the curve in a higher gear and around 7-8k rmps(roughly). This way you have much more room to play with. 11k does not give you much breathing room.
Pretty much this is the reason why I said that you should try not to (did not say DONT) switch gears in a leaning position/curve.. In the MFS courses they mentioned many reason why are regular bums like me should try to avoid this case. However, different situations require different tactic. So its difficult to generalize this. Be safe all.

 

I LOVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEE reverse shifting, ill keep it on anybike i have from now on!!!!!!!!

 

there's more reasons to reverse shift than what was previously posted...
i find that it makes more sense to downshift going up when braking very hard than it does to shift downwards...i dunno why...but granted...i can down super duper uber fast regular shift style...but now i can upshift uber duper fast gp style...