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Old 09-17-2011, 12:26 PM   #5 (permalink)
MPGranger
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Originally Posted by Peter7307 View Post
MPG,
I was thinking as well you may be gaining speed at the wrong place / time since the freeway is usually travelling faster than the streets off ramps feed into.

Peter.
The South depends heavily on highways to get from point A to point B. Like I said there are a lot of these connecting one highway to another. And the approach is usually uphill so I hit my glide before the off ramp.

What I am talking about is feeling that pull towards the outside of the curve and wondering if there is a way to harness it, possibly at the tangent (exit). I want to play around with lane position in the off ramp.

Being a motorcyclist, I understand losing tire traction for a myriad of conditions. Also I am wary of the safety considerations because some native southerners, I am from Pennsylvania, are afraid to turn faster than 10mph and a lot of these off ramps are blind turns.
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