I've noticed that I'm more comfortable turning right at the track. I can tell from my tire wear, how much I drag my knees, and just an overall feeling of control in the corner. It's not just that all the tracks I run are clockwise tracks, though that doesn't help.
Is it common to favour one direction over the other, kinda like being right-handed? Are there exercises or anything that anyone can recommend to help me overcome my left turn weakness?
2 main reasons, the throttle is on the right changing your body positioning on that side, your problem can be corrected/regulated by resting your middle finger
eek:nefinger) on the brake lever. The second reason if you are or were a street rider you tend to favor the right so you don't blow a corner and go into an incoming car, lefts tend to be sweepers. Sometimes it has to do with your foot positioning, if you have some obstruction in any of the foot pegs like a small hose or the master cylinder your foot will pivot differently.
Got this from another forum:
first make sure your not putting any weight on your arms and you have your core set. then let the outside of your wrist on the throttle slide out so that you are holding it like screwdriver with it kinda running down the center of your palm.
first pic. is the wrong way the the second is the right way
Also:
When I started riding, my lefts were better than my rights. When I tried to consciously correct this, my rights got better than my lefts. I tracked down my body posture to the following important items:
1) Stay light on the bars. Connect to the tank with your legs so that you can feel your hands floating above the bars.
2) Head, shoulders & intent: look where you want to go (duh). *Know* that you're committed to going there. But what helped even out my turns and made it -click- was making sure that your shoulders follow your head and open up to the turn, too. For instance, let's say on lefts you look left and turn your shoulders left so it feels good and you 'memorize' that good position. On rights you may be looking right but unconsciously turning your shoulders left because it's the 'good turn feeling' - but on a right-hander it actually ends up cramping your positioning.
3) Pay attention to your body symmetry. This was/is the biggest thing for me (and I suspect many people), because we drive cars with right-hand shifters and use computers with right-hand mice and do lots of things that place asymetrical loads - my right side is a lot more tense than my left. As a result, I was used to/more prone to bending my spine to the right than to the left. This meant that I could lean down and kiss my right-side mirror real good - but on lefts my body still 'wanted' to bend right, meaning over-lean.
pay attention to all of the things your body is doing when turning right; compare to what your body does when turning left. Primary objects of attention: hips, spine, head, shoulders, feet. Go turn-y more better
