u/biigdogg

Man!!! One of the coolest adrenaline filled days of my +30 yr old life. Fastest, tightest, twistiest pieces of road I've ever ridden!

If it wasn't for the Insta360 my boy had, I'd never believe it... I was not leaning y'all... At all basically. I was using counter-steering and trying to keep pace. It worked, but with greater risk. When I stopped leaning the bike... I took turns so slow...

I felt like I was leaning with body position, but I was wasting movement (twerking on the seat), my arms stayed bent (clamping the tank with my forearm), I didn't bring my shoulders far, my head was sitting right above the tank.

It was so surreal to see in video how much I didn't do what the coaches kept asking me to do.

I guess I'm scared to hang off... I'm scared that hanging off won't actually help with turning... I took with little to no entry speed...

Any advice is welcome.

Funny story. I've had my Rebel 300 for over 6 months and yesterday feels like I rode it for the first day.

Until yesterday, I was riding soft, shifting when the engine sounded a little "loud", because it doesn't have a tach, and I didn't want to "break" my bike.

Google told me the powerband for it was in the 6-8k range or something.

After actually letting the engine do it's thing, I was going 55-60mph in 4th, where as before, if the I got to 51mph, I would shift to 5th. Big difference in riding experience and acceleration response.

Now, I see why one needs to respect bikes at higher Ccs, because our 300s are incredibly forgiving. I have much to learn.