Motorcycle Riding - The Friction Zone
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Jeff Thompson
Vice President of Course Curriculum, Motorcycle Riding Concepts
www.saddleupva.com
703-491-9102
mrcsaddleup@comcast.net
Motorcycle Riding Concepts provides cutting-edge motorcycle training. Our goal is to provide students with the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to meet the many challenges that operating a motorcycle on the streets of any metropolitan area presents. Our students are instructed by career police motorcycle officers, who ride motorcycles every day for a living. Our certified instructors have taught motorcycling skills to students from across the country and abroad. We will provide training motorcycles similar to the customers' personal choices, enabling them to experience and demonstrate learned skills without fear of damaging their own pride and joy. Upon completion of the training, our students will leave with the tools they need to enhance their skills, making them a safer rider and increasing their enjoyment of their motorcycling experience.</font>
Jeffrey Thompson is the Vice President of Course Curriculum for Motorcycle Riding Concepts. Jeff is a Police Sergeant and is currently assigned as a Crash Reconstruction Supervisor for a large suburban police agency. Jeff has owned, built, and operated motorcycles both on- and off-road for 40 years, of which 27 years have been with the police department. Jeff has been a certified Motorcycle Instructor for 20 years and has had the opportunity to instruct students from all over the USA and abroad.
Motorcycle Riding - The Friction Zone
This video will show motorcycle riding and discuss the friction zone.
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Jeff Thompson: Hi, I am Jeff Thompson at Motorcycle Riding concepts and this is Mark Payton he is going to do our demonstration for us today. We are going to talk about the friction zone on the motorcycle which is what is used to start to propel the motorcycle. I always use this same analogy when we are teaching when my dad taught me how to drive a car, he taught me on the Family Pick up truck. Well think about a pick up truck weighing 3500 pounds and the clutch being this big. While on the motorcycle, this particular motorcycle only weighs 360 pounds and the clutch is this big so it is not a lot smaller than the clutch on a big truck like that.
But the weight difference on the motorcycle is completely different. He used to tell me don't slip my clutch because you are going to burn it up and then I will have to buy a new clutch. On a motorcycle to find the friction zone into ride a motorcycle slowly in a parking lot, you actually have to slip the clutch for stability. So having said that we are going to show you how to do that. Now I am going to step out of frame now so you can see more clearly on the motorcycle how Mark does this.
He is going to start the motorcycle, and he is going depress the gear selector down into first gear and remember you can do this particular exercise sitting in front of your house on the street or any parking lot where there is a curb stone. Notice the rear wheel is backed up against a wooden block that we are going to call a curb stone for this exercise. Now what he is going to is elevate his RPM, his throttle just a little bit and he is going to ease his clutch out to that friction point where the motorcycle starts to move and he is just going to let the motorcycle move just a little bit forward. He is going to pull his clutch in and let the motorcycle rock back against that curb stone. He is going to do this a few times, to start to feel that friction zone. Some people call that friction zone, the sweet spot and this is the essence of riding a motorcycle slowly in a parking lot. I would tell you to do this a lot in the beginning of learning how to ride a motorcycle so you could become familiar with that sweet spot and how to move that motorcycle. Now that we have understood the concept of friction zone to move the motorcycle we are going to move up to the next step which is actually moving the motorcycle in a circle and we are going to call that Power walking.
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Another tip
Here's an extra tip on the friction zone. Notice how long it takes him to get back into the friction zone. This is because he pulls the clutch lever all the way back to the handgrip. However, once the clutch engages simply pull the clutch lever back an inch or even less to remove all power to the rear wheel. This smaller movement allows more precision and control with the clutch.
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The most deadly mistake on a motorcycle
When making long, sweeping turns to the right or left on a highway at high speeds, you cannot simply lean into the turn as you can on a bicycle-- you must briefly crank your handlebars in the OPPOSITE direction from where you are going-- crank your handlebar to the LEFT to start a sweeping RIGHT turn, and crank to the RIGHT to enter a sweeping LEFT turn. If you think this is not true, just try it on a bicycle at low speeds first. Also, when watching motorcycle races on video, notice the riders
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deadly riding mistakes (cont'd.)
(cont'd.) Also, when watching motorcycle races on video, notice the riders always crank their wheels in the opposite direction immediately before any turn. <><> Unfortunately, motorcycle safety manuals from the Department of Motor Vehicles should have this extremely important information, but they don't, & it may be killing novice motorcyclists.