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<blockquote data-quote="Dave Wood" data-source="post: 103777" data-attributes="member: 246"><p><em>No. Waste of energy. grip when needed for the situation. For example hard braking, I move my body weight back stiffen/extend arms and grip the bike with my knees, then squeeze the front brake hard. This reduces the pressure on the palms of my hands as my legs do more of the work to maintin my rearward position on the bike. Keeping my hands lose and relaxed to work the controls. Following the intial hard braking as I am easing off the brake approaching the apex I loosing my knee grip and arms and move forward to weight the front tire. Understand that while back and braking your loading the front tire, but as you release the front brake it unloads the front tire. One needs to transition some body weight forward to keep the front tire weighted or planted. This was one of Bubbas issues with the Yamaha, he had to adjust and get more weight further forward. If you watched the race on Saturday, from Spring Creek. Those bikes were moving all around. You can see air between the riders knees and the bike at times. They allowed the bike to move. If they had a tight squeeze it would be like a kick boxer knocking your legs out from under you when the bike makes such an abrupt swap. By riding lose, the bike moves and you are warned that the bike is stepping out and you have the opportunity to weight the pegs and move your weight to stay in balance over the bike. Watch Dungey in the Monstor whoops, focus on his knees. His knees are moving forward and back as the bike rocks, front wheel, down/up. Would you say he is gripping the bike? If he did grip his knees would remain locked in one spot. So as the front dips his weight would be pulled forward. In the sand as one G's out do you really want to have your weight pulled forward at that moment? Not me. Same thing with the front high. Jeff Emig describes Dungeys riding as calm on the bike. He is looking at the riders head and shoulders. If you isolated the video on the head and shoulders are they moving around a lot? Now below the shoulders a lot of leg and core muscle work is going on. The bike moving all around.</em></p><p> </p><p><em>The top riders are pushing right to the edge and they are managing an out of control state. The bike takes a sudden and unexpected deflection, how did they save it? It is all about balance and having ones weight in a position to react. Look at Alessi's first lap swap, how did he safe it? Who would suggest that, had he maintain a tight grip, with both legs squeezing the bike, that he would have saved it, like he did? </em></p><p> </p><p><em>Some call it riding lose or fluid.</em></p><p></p><p><em>Ask yourself why Trials riders do so well when they get on a dirt bike. The understand balance. Dirt bike riders have a seat and they develop bad habits. Like hanging on and fighting ones bike. Instead of being balanced on the bike and letting the bike work/move around under you. Does a Trials rider have a tank/seat to grip with ones knees? Sure they can squeeze with the lower leg and at times they will. But do they always squeeze? I say they don't. </em></p><p> <em>Gripping holds your knees in a fixed spot, your not gripping the bike if the bike is free to move.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave Wood, post: 103777, member: 246"] [I]No. Waste of energy. grip when needed for the situation. For example hard braking, I move my body weight back stiffen/extend arms and grip the bike with my knees, then squeeze the front brake hard. This reduces the pressure on the palms of my hands as my legs do more of the work to maintin my rearward position on the bike. Keeping my hands lose and relaxed to work the controls. Following the intial hard braking as I am easing off the brake approaching the apex I loosing my knee grip and arms and move forward to weight the front tire. Understand that while back and braking your loading the front tire, but as you release the front brake it unloads the front tire. One needs to transition some body weight forward to keep the front tire weighted or planted. This was one of Bubbas issues with the Yamaha, he had to adjust and get more weight further forward. If you watched the race on Saturday, from Spring Creek. Those bikes were moving all around. You can see air between the riders knees and the bike at times. They allowed the bike to move. If they had a tight squeeze it would be like a kick boxer knocking your legs out from under you when the bike makes such an abrupt swap. By riding lose, the bike moves and you are warned that the bike is stepping out and you have the opportunity to weight the pegs and move your weight to stay in balance over the bike. Watch Dungey in the Monstor whoops, focus on his knees. His knees are moving forward and back as the bike rocks, front wheel, down/up. Would you say he is gripping the bike? If he did grip his knees would remain locked in one spot. So as the front dips his weight would be pulled forward. In the sand as one G's out do you really want to have your weight pulled forward at that moment? Not me. Same thing with the front high. Jeff Emig describes Dungeys riding as calm on the bike. He is looking at the riders head and shoulders. If you isolated the video on the head and shoulders are they moving around a lot? Now below the shoulders a lot of leg and core muscle work is going on. The bike moving all around.[/I] [I]The top riders are pushing right to the edge and they are managing an out of control state. The bike takes a sudden and unexpected deflection, how did they save it? It is all about balance and having ones weight in a position to react. Look at Alessi's first lap swap, how did he safe it? Who would suggest that, had he maintain a tight grip, with both legs squeezing the bike, that he would have saved it, like he did? [/I] [I]Some call it riding lose or fluid.[/I] [I]Ask yourself why Trials riders do so well when they get on a dirt bike. The understand balance. Dirt bike riders have a seat and they develop bad habits. Like hanging on and fighting ones bike. Instead of being balanced on the bike and letting the bike work/move around under you. Does a Trials rider have a tank/seat to grip with ones knees? Sure they can squeeze with the lower leg and at times they will. But do they always squeeze? I say they don't. [/I] [I]Gripping holds your knees in a fixed spot, your not gripping the bike if the bike is free to move.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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