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Hello, I am Brian from Sokal SuperMoto. I wanted to go through the 5 biggest or most common mistakes that I see on the racetrack with new drivers on supermoto bikes. The first mistake is those who come from the sport bike range. Most people who come from the dirt bike range get used to supermoto very quickly. They don't seem to have much or less of this problem, which I will talk about now. If you come from the dirt bike range, you can keep most of what you do. You just have to get used to it, to use the front brake much more often. But the change is not as big as with a sport bike rider. One of the most important things you will see here, and I will show you later on the track, is that you instinctively as a sport bike rider, lean on the bike inside. What is great. When you ride a sport bike, you lean inside, the chin towards the curve. On a supermoto bike, you bring your face up to the bike. The most common mistake I see is that the rear is too far back on the bike, the shoulders are bent down and you lean on the wrong side. Basically, you see riders who ride around The solution is to do what is part of the ride. Basically, you put yourself on the tank, a view up and then push the bike down. So basically you are in this position here. We have another series, in which we talk about the body posture, but in general that is probably one of the biggest mistakes. The next mistake I see here is what I call leg trees. Imagine your foot on a supermoto bike or your boots You put your foot not just on the foot and put it all over it. Basically, you use it as a kind of feeling-lead. When you are on the road, as you use your knee-slide as a feeling-lead on a sport bike. I have noticed that riders, even if they do not really So you will see that riders on the track have their legs on the side. For me it looks So you should do the following. And that is a really, really easy solution. Put your foot on the foot-slide, just lift your knee and move your foot a little bit forward. Nothing too extreme, just up and forward. That will raise the second biggest problem, the cr N A big part of the brake effect is the engine brake. A big problem for riders is that they let the clutch enter the curve, possibly because they try to keep the bike calm. So if you see a rider on the straight, brakes the bike, pulls the clutch, starts to turn on. And only when he is in the curve, he lets the clutch go. The bike will never feel stable. You take the whole great engine brake, which you would have. In short, you should not let the clutch come in easy, but let it come in relatively smoothly and relatively quickly, so that you can use the whole engine brake, which is available to you. In general, you brake in the first line with the engine brake and the front brake. The most common problem that you can also observe during sports bike race tracks days, is that you turn on too early. You see that again and again on the race track, when you go down the straight. There is a lot of stuff to be afraid of before you go down. Sails, gravel, dirt, dirt, dirt and all that. Therefore it is completely normal that you look at the track and turn on too early. So you have to consciously choose a late or late curve and steer. When you turn on too early, it is especially true that you drive the curve too far out and often on a track with a lot of gravel and not too sticky track. One of the most common accidents is that drivers turn on too early. This leads to them driving too far out in the curve and then trying to adjust their curve or line without going out of the gas. And then you see a lot of high and low sides and such things. The fastest and easiest solution for this is a U to a V. Basically, you drive over it, build a nice U and leave the curve with a V. If you drive a U to a V, that is a good way of going, the curve is at a double point of gravel and is not greater than 180 degrees. This is a really good approach to make sure that you don'turn on too early. And then the last thing I always see and the part of the conversation is about gentle input, about what we talked about. I see that people immediately let go of the brakes. Then they drive straight into the straight. They brake and when they reach the turning point, they don't let go of the brakes, but just let go of them. So now you have a problem with which your suspension is exactly in the moment is being unloaded by turning on. The answer is that we talked about the bell curve in our other video. Just pay attention to the fact that the braking force is the same as to reduce the gas. The same applies to the brakes. If you brake, you should slowly reduce the braking force, instead of just braking and then just let go. In s First, to lean on the wrong side of the motorbike with the rear. Second, to let go of the leg. These often hang tightly together. Third, to turn the clutch into the curve. Fourth, to turn it on too early. And then the fifth, just to go from the brake, to let go of the brake instead of just rolling it. If you do that, hopefully you will get an idea of what you are doing and how you can drive better.