Carl Fogarty - Aaron Slight - How Do They Do That ? - Honda RC45 - 1996.

[@Ducky27645]

Rollin on in on the RC45. Legend

[@willbest1547]

Those were the days. Miss those Honda V-4's.

[@TheFujac]

honda use a V4 in motogp

[@MrAckers75]

They still got spanked by the twins

[@Oneplus-ki2pr]

But with a extra 250 CC's.......

[@adampug206gti]

i love my RC45 great vid...

[@technomickdocumentalist2495]

One of the very best sports bikes ever made, and they look and sound great too.

[@thirstyvagabond329]

That's me Carl and Aaron are talking to in the interview as I was the researcher on this piece way back. What a great day! Met up with Aaron a few times in the following years. What a gentleman. Funny thing is when Carl and all the HRC guys came to the studio, the producers warned me: 'Don't let the bikers drink too much beer in the green room before they come into the studio!' I told her: 'This is a multiple world champion and one of the fittest guys in the sport. I don't think you have anything to worry about!' Maybe she was judging him based on what she knew about me...? Ha ha!

[@intelligent6847]

There are currently only 3 of these bikes in South Korea. :)

[@DeconstructiveArt]

Wow. You look back at a video like this and then to the so-called Premier MotoGP field and wonder "Where have all the bikes gone?"

[@BrightonGC8]

I wish WSBK would go back to being 1000cc twins vs 750s. It was much more exciting in the late 90s early 2000s. =(

[@Oneplus-ki2pr]

So true!!!

[@malcolmrowe5031]

Yep, except the 10000CC rule was in favour of the ducati, should've let the 750's go to 800CC like in AMA, WSBK now is so bland, all the bikes look the same,

[@livingbeing1113]

@@malcolmrowe5031 Exactly. Ducati always had massive regulations advantages since the beginning. Back then most championships were won on a Ducati, Fogarty himself proved that also, going to Honda and not winning, in fact doing worse than his teammate Slight.

[@africanos89]

those old ladies look realy interested ,,,hahaha

[@TerryClarkAccordioncrazy]

Nothing about counter steering which is actually how bikes go around corners. Hanging off has nothing to do with making it go around the corner, it just means the bike leans less once it's in the corner.

[@derekstegall9811]

Absolutely right very well said

[@Smeeheeee]

Not true. Counter steering is just a way to tip the bike over, initiating the turn. It has nothing to do with the physics of actually going around the corner. When you move a mass towards the centre of the object's rotation the object's turn rate increases. The bike leans less to keep the turn rate constant. And less lean is desirable - only in order to keep the contact patch of the tyre maximised, otherwise the patch diminishes as you run off the side of the tyre and you lessen the amount grip you have.

[@Bluepilled-c5t]

Not true. Counter steering is a way to get the bike to turn in, faster, but you can turn a bike without doing it at all.

[@rosemarydudley9954]

It's all about physics. You push the bike down and you sit up. Centrifugal force 'n' all that stuff...

[@FeriansyahPz]

They said Aaron Slight had weird hairdo, now now we see them everywhere !!!

[@rosemarydudley9954]

There are different ways of riding different bike. I always had a regular type which you steered to where you wanted to go. My first sports bike ... well on a test ride I couldn't get the hang of cornering. Back at the shop I was told YOU HAVE A SPORTS BIKE, YOU DON'T STEER IT - YOU LEAN IT. Then I got the hang of it. THEN I learned about counter steering. WOW what a difference. To the lay-man, if you have a right hand bend, you ride as if to turn left i.e. push down on the right handle bar and pull the left one back. I ended up going faster and safer. Never got my knee down but after all I was (at the time) a 60+ y.o. lady on a Gixer 1000K3..

[@MrWeasel1984]

7303 views and not 1 comment that must be a record

[@davewilson2277]

Cadwell Park looking good

[@risdianilham4624]

Knee down style no elbow down

[@TheLiddleBigChannel]

Did they know nothing about cornering dynamics back then or did they hide their secrets very well!

[@LOTPOR0402]

This must of been made for Irish tv back when eamonn holmes was working for them .Theres no way bikes would make onto uk tv

I am sure those old ladies took the cornering information to heart and now gracefully fly round bends and get hard on the gas when powering out of bends on the way to bingo

[@steve23464]

So THAT'S how they did it...

[@ToddTube1]

There explanation of steering around the corners was highly inaccurate.

[@martincollins4467]

yes highly!!

[@niko7903]

@JezBollah 667 lol Nope. It is all about counter steering to initiate a turn. You push the right handlebar forward (wheel points left) bike will lean and turn right. (As long as you're going more than 5-10mph or so) If you locked the front wheel in place (no turn), no matter how hard you leaned (at speed), bike would just go straight.

[@niko7903]

@JezBollah 667 You're confusing two different things. Any influence of turning from the rear wheel comes after the front wheel initiates the turn. You can't make a bike lean at speed without counter steering front wheel in opposite direction of the desired turning direction. I've been riding all my life, track and street. Many riders don't even realize they're doing it. Same on a bicycle if you're going fast enough. What happens usually is that when you go to lean your body to the right, for instance, you end up putting forward pressure on right handlebar, and you end up pulling on left bar, naturally, because you're supporting your body weight from the lean. Get on a stationary bike, and hang off the side, notice the natural directional pressure you're putting on the bars. You're pushing on the bar of the side you're leaning, and pulling to hang your weight of the outside bar. So it ends up happening naturally without too much thought, and it becomes muscle memory. People get in trouble when they over think it, without knowing what the physics dictate. Seen riders who needed to make an important turn to avoid danger, try to turn but all the bike does is want to turn in the wrong direction, and then disaster. You can lean all you want, but unless you turn the front wheel in opposite direction of turn, you're not going to turn the direction you desire. This is just how physics of motorcycles work. Jump on a bicycle, go down a hill at a good speed. Turn the handlebar to the right, where is all the weight up top going to go, what side of the bike will your body be thrown? To the left. Taking any decent riding course, this what you will learn, any physics class, this is what you will learn. Keith Code Riding School has a "no BS bike" where the wheels are locked in line, no matter what you do, it will just go straight, you can't make it lean. The front wheel has to be able to turn, the rear wheel does not initiate a turn. But, you can influence a turn with techniques using the rear wheel, but to do a traditional turn on a bike, counter steering the front wheel is how it works. I can, and have many times, made turns with 1 finger simply pushing forward on the handlebar (not even wrapped around handlebar) on the side of the direction of the desired turn. Push on right grip, go right, push on left grip, go left. Once you learn that is how it works, turning becomes so much easier, once you have the confidence in knowing how it works. At slow speeds below about 5-10mph, you just turn front wheel in direction of turn.

[@niko7903]

@JezBollah 667 Dude, you're hopeless. Steering with the rear, is a high level racer technique, to help turn better than you can with just handlebar input. That is with the throttle, when they say steer with the rear. NONE OF THAT WOULD BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT COUNTER STEERING THE FRONT TO INITIATE A TURN FIRST. No matter what you do, throttle, brake, or lean, you will not turn without initiating turn with counter steering front. Go look it up, because you are clearly mistaken, and conflating other turning techniques that help high level riders manipulate the bike into turning better than counter steering only allows, none if those techniques are necessary, counter steering is 100% necessary everytime. There is no way around this, you ARE WRONG. Let's go do my experiment, using a cliff, if you die, I get all your stuff. I'm certain, I can make the turn counter steering. I'm certain that if you don't counter steer the front, you're going to need the ability to fly, or you'll die.

[@niko7903]

@JezBollah 667 You completely missed my point on hanging on the bars. I don't have time to explain this further, at least at the moment. What I know is, you're mistaken, aka wrong. Go look up physics of motorcycles. You need to, because you're confused.

[@happyraccoon4791]

How do they do that

[@shaneweightman]

No were did I hear anything about counter steer , they wouldn’t get round any bend without counter steering ,, very accurate description NOT cheers Shane uk 🇬🇧

[@patthewoodboy]

the secret is counter steering , its what gets the bike to lean.

[@Oneplus-ki2pr]

Just while drifting. Wouldn't counter steer otherwise.

[@patthewoodboy]

@@Oneplus-ki2pr you counter steer to turn , you just dont know it. Try this next time you are going 50mph approaching a left turn , deliberately turn left with the bars , what hospital food would you like 🙂

[@Oneplus-ki2pr]

sure bro, u do that I'll keep doing it my way. :)

[@patthewoodboy]

@@Oneplus-ki2pr as I wrote , you dont know you are counter steering doing corners , so yes keep doing it the way you dont know that you are doing 🙂 PS have you tried my idea of deliberately steering left as you want to turn left in a high speed corner ,let me know when you have. The problem is if you do that , you might not be able to do anything for a long time.

[@Oneplus-ki2pr]

If ur talking about the little bit of pressure u put into it steering in some corners, sure. But I'm not talking about that. That's what I call balancing. When I put my front tire the opposite direction of the corner I'm taking, that's what I call counter steering. (Like dirt trackers or speedway guys do or super motard etc,) I'm pretty sure u know u can take most corners without even touching the handlebars, right. So...the "counter steering is a reaction on ur input. Like ur body weight vs geometry of the bike (tires)at certain points. ( Very crude way of saying it on my part. but that bcus my English sucks :).) Though...sure some corners need counter steering at some speeds.(the thing u meant I think) It's just not the thing what makes lean angles possible on its own.( The thing I replied on).

[@shaneweightman]

Accordingly it's all about counter steer,,

[@martincollins4467]

this should b deleted as its fake information!!

[@MusashiSolid206]

How stupid, it would have been cool to hear about cornering from foggy himself.

[@Showmetheevidence-]

MusashiSolid206 Most of what they said is BS anyway.

[@fastjaydub]

Hideously cheesy video for the none biking masses!

[@vangrandvangrand928]

F@ck traction control.

[@Showmetheevidence-]

The body weight is such BS, you turn by counter steering... not moving your body. Putting your body on the inside helps change the centre of gravity (I.e. more speed).

[@Smeeheeee]

Nope. Counter steer just changes the bikes direction. Putting a mass on the inside of the turn creates centripetal force pulling the bike around the turn. Because, physics.

[@cherrypicker8897]

A lot of nonsense.

[@aviationiceman9549]

Emomm now there one sectarian bigot