the same rules applies to the heavier bikes as it does for the lighter ones, even a bicycle.
you must lean it over to make it turn....
the tighter the corner, the harder you have to make it lean.
Rule #1: the bike will go where your eyes are looking....
that means that you need to practice looking about halfway thru that turn, not the 100 feet that is right in front of you.
Rule #2: if the road surface is wet, knock 25% off the speed limit to be safe.
If you try to go thru a wet turn at the speed limit, you are putting your life in the hands of the Angels hoping they don't let you slide into a ditch.
Tires can only do so much, the best tires can make the bad ones look very bad.
When the roads get wet, I slow down:
you can knock 10% off the speed limit and your Time To Destination won't change more than 3 minutes for almost every trip you make.
this excludes a 1,000 run. I am talking about all the little trips we take to work and back, the 100 mile rides to see the colors of the tree leaves..... that is a fact, and your GPS can prove it for you very easy.
Set up a Destination, and then set the GPS to give you ARRIVAL TIME.
Now, this is the hard part. Knock 5% off the speed limit and let the Hot Rod jerks go around you..
Meanwhile, you are enjoying the view, you aren't about to hit the guy in front, because he isn't there anymore.
Make it a point to always stay 5% below the Speed Limit...... betcha when you get back home, or at that destination, the Time Difference is not enough for you to even get off, take a leak and buy a coke.
I do this everyday, and it is now a habit.... I run exact at, or 2-3 mph slower than the Speed LImit.
For off ramps, I never take one faster than the Posted Speed Limit for that curve.....
that has saved my ass so many times, I can't count them all.
we have an off ramp here in Tulsa that has needed to be resurfaced for 10 years....
one day I took that ramp, and a huge hole was right in the middle of where I normally track thru it.
Had I been pushing the speed limit +10 mph or more, like 99% of motorcycle riders do, I would have done an End Over and crashed into the guard rails.