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Thanks for these great Q&A videos. Based on your advice I’ve booked into JW school at Anglesey. I have a skills question. At track days on my SV650 I’m having a lot of trouble trying the off throttle turning after faster straights. As I brake at the corner approach I’m being pushed forward onto bars and I can’t get it turned. Have to really concentrate to let the brake go, the front pops up and it turns nicely. But I’ve lost a lot of speed. Any advice?

Neevesy thanx again for another great video, and for all the content you bless us with. Been always having a struggle with deciding what bike will be next because the issue is that where I am there isn’t always the option to test drive the bike I want, and if I find it, I can’t spend enough time to decide. Any tips on how to decide when spending only roughly 1 hour with it? Thanx again for all your tips!

For context I'm a Brit living in NL. You guys don't know how lucky you are with the roads in the UK. Much better than here in NL for riding a motorbike. Secondly once you cross the tunnel don't forget the ardenne in belgium and the eifel region in germany is fantastic for bikes. A lot of Dutchies go there!

Hi Neevesy,
Would like your thoughts on riding gear. Been riding for many decades and always wear appropriate boots jackets etc.
The trend towards the urban look with shirts, hoodies and boots which might look cool but do they really offer any real world protection compared to a proper jacket and decent boots.
Long time subscriber, looking forward to more content from you….Cheers.

I just found out yamaha are not making the R1 from 2025 allso gsxr1000 being discontinued in Europe 😢 WTF is happening what's you're View on this ….cheers

I have a made to measure Dainese track suit. There's barely room in there for me and the undersuit. Where am I supposed to put an air bag?

Hello Neevesy, absolutely loving this series. I was wondering what your opinions are of the k1300r and k1300s what are they like to ride and would you reccomend either of them? Cheers for the reply

Really Appreciate the Answer and the Historical context was great! hadn't really considered how previous rules had basically not affected road bikes.
Personally i am excited to see a change in the rules regarding aero and ride height more then the capacity change, which seems like it's more about the limitations of the Tires Michelin are producing.

I am one of the few left who really loves 1000cc superbikes and use them both for Road and Track. So i don't wanna see WSBK change, it's honestly such exciting racing right now (better than MotoGP i would argue).

However with all that said, they way Euro Emissions regs are going and the shrinking of the market for superbikes being what it is i would hope we see development of a new category rather than superbikes becoming just a small number of homologation or track only special editions that very few people can afford.

Excellent again, thanks Neevesey! 👍

Another enjoyable video, thank you. Comment and question if I may. Back in the 90s in my R1 powered 30s I found my favourite roads to ride up here in Scotland were just crazy busy with tourists, caravans and coaches. So, started going out at 6am and doing a loop North of Glasgow up to Oban, or Glen Coe etc and seeing bugger all traffic, cops or other bikes. Heaven. Bar the odd wandering sheep to keep you alert! 3 hours or so and back home for breakfast before the roads got busy.
Question: you have talked in riding technique videos about doing the turn in phase on a closed throttle which I find works very well now my front forks aren't too soft and ruining the geometry under the strain of my weight. Problem I have is that at normal sensible(ish) road speeds by the time I reach the turn in point on my shut throttle the engine breaking is slowing me so much I have to start accelarating again at an awkward moment. I make it work by modulating the throttle as I approach turn in so I am doing that part on a neutral throttle and start applying the gas as the bend opens. Short of approaching bends at a higher rate of speed that would often be inappropriate for the road conditions I am struggling to get it quite right. Works fine for me when I can see through the bend but that is not often the case, ie. I can take the bend faster than the road conditions allow so I cannot be at the optimum speed to utilise this technique. A long waffle that I'm not sure conveys my meaning but any thoughts…?

The police are there to protect us not catch us. I think its time to take back our roads by letting our mps know that we dont want speed cameras everywhere….just infront of schools!!!! And as for people with dash cams that use them to do police work, they can disappear to where they came from.. rant over now lets get our roads back.🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍

Best place to ride a sports bike?
Spain!
Spain has 1000s of miles of almost empty well surfaced roads. Th Pyrenees and Picos are fooking amazing. I been going there almost every year for the last decade.

No wonder why old MVs liked to have a bit of an oil leak.
They bolted the sidestand directly onto the oil sump.
Typical Italians 😂

6am on a weekend is a good start time. T wells to petersfield via a 272. Breakfast with the old man, so long ago on an rgv. Miss the fella.

I'm lucky enough to live in an area of outstanding Biker beauty. I live in Toft Hill, Bishop Auckland. I go from my place to Barnard Castle, out of there towards Middleton in Teesdale, through there past High Force and over the tops to Alston. From there, Hartside Pass, then Penrith roundabout, over to Shap, Kendal, Devil's Bridge, Hawes, Leyburn, Richmond then a blast along the A66 to Barney, take the road back to my place from there. I sleep well after that! Not a camera or copper most days, even weekends although you do need to watch out for when they do speed campaigns. Common sense required to know when to blast along and when to slow it down a bit. My Gen2 'busa and I have a lot of fun. 😁😁👍👍

If you can only afford one airbag, and you have a middle weight adventure, use it 70/30 road mild dirt roads, is the road biased Alpinestars still good enough? Would you turn it off while off road? Thanks

I have a 2000 MV Agusta F4 750S. Its only got 3700 miles on it. Its brilliant! So full of character. And, you get to experience the build-up of speed. Unlike todays 200hp missiles. You're going too fast before you even know it !