Something else to try using the friction zone on the clutch to turn out of the driveway. No real throttle, just enough to keep the bike from stalling as you release out of the friction zone.

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That's coming out of my driveway. Right now, it's a lowside waiting to happen on those tracks. The best way I've found to get out of my driveway is to wait till the road is clear, idle through the friction zone, turn the bars when the front wheel clears the 1st track and counterweight till I straighten out the turn. Then crank the throttle when I'm clear

I read your post about your accident. Just how fast were you trying to exit the driveway?

 

Oh that looks like FUN! Hah.

Not fast at all, was pretty much idling down. And yeah- I'm spending a lot of time working on friction zone, feathering, looking through turns, etc. I'm hoping if I put enough time into it I can get out this weekend, but I won't try and push it. Bad enough managing a bike at low speeds without being nervous about it and compounding the issue

 

No... fun is the first intersection I hit. Especially if I have to make a right turn.


I'm definitely no expert but if you were idling down and lowsided that bad, it sounds like you tried to accelerate too early. Could you have hit the throttle before reaching the apex of the turn? Steady in, accelerate out. Same as a turn at speed. Plus counterweighting the lean.

I'm still a bit nervous on my street. A Harley rider with decades experience down the block lowsided on the tracks. But I get a grip by reminding myself I can do it because I've done it many times already

 

it all depends what speed your doing. If your under 30 kms an hour, you need to "steer" the bike like a car, while holding in your clutch and draging your rear brake, I wouldn't lean at all.

 

You can lean just fine all the way down to like 5mph, as long as your technique is appropriate.

 

Kuroshio, thats right by drexel. do you go there?

 

This clicked again today, btw- thanks for putting it in my head. Something I was doing really wrong coming back was starting the turn before I was moving. I paid attention to how I make turns in a manual car- clutch, gas, then wheel turn- and once I managed to start doing that on the bike it's going a lot better. Still nervous as hell, but I went out for a real-er ride last night and it's starting to be fun again.

 

Elfling , I was nervous with standing turns as well , hell if your not happy walk it round using the clutch and throttle . Then go somewhere you feel safe and practice the same manoeuvre untill you have the confidence to do it out of your driveway.