Timeline for Is there a cornering warm up routine?
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| Aug 24, 2020 at 14:02 | answer | added | Andrew | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 15, 2020 at 12:57 | comment | added | Dan K | You also need a level of confidence in the bike your riding, you also need to know your own limits. If you ride the same route regularly you will know what corners you can push on / lean in too and the ones you can’t | |
| Aug 13, 2020 at 18:47 | comment | added | Carson Reinke | @sam MTB/XC for the most part | |
| Aug 13, 2020 at 4:20 | comment | added | sam | I have never heard of such a thing (a cornering warm up routine), but then again I do not ride competitively. I know that race car tires have greater traction when warm compared to when they are cold, but I do not think that applies to bicycle tires as much. What type of riding do you do? | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 0:20 | comment | added | rclocher3 | RULE #64 // Cornering confidence increases with time and experience. This pattern continues until it falls sharply and suddenly. | |
| Aug 10, 2020 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackBicycles/status/1292928726473347073 | ||
| Aug 10, 2020 at 19:11 | comment | added | stijn | Agree with MaplePanda: this is likely a mental thing rather than a physcial one (it still helps if you're muscles are warmed up though I guess); so it's an interesting question, but unlike a 'normal' warm up answers are likely going to be very personal and hard to back by science. | |
| Aug 10, 2020 at 19:02 | history | edited | Argenti Apparatus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 10, 2020 at 18:10 | comment | added | MaplePanda | It’s likely because you have a better feel of the level of traction available as you keep riding. “I didn’t crash in the last corner, so this next corner can be even faster”. | |
| Aug 10, 2020 at 17:18 | history | asked | Carson Reinke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |