Lozzo

Credit where it's due - you're obviously keeping the bike upright enough to keep anything solid like footrests and exhaust cans off the deck, but far enough over to make full use of the tyre. That's what appropriate hanging off does for you.

I was at a GB2/No-Limits trackday at Rockingham today where I helped my instructor mate Danny give an American lady some instruction on hanging off and faster cornering. In the morning she'd been one of the fastest novices, but was sat bolt upright and badly scraping the pegs on her lowered GSR600. In the afternoon, after being moved up a group, she was in the lower to middle of the inters with the pegs only lightly scraping, and a body position mid corner that made John Reynolds look twice and comment on how good she looked out there (we didn't tell her this cos we didn't want her to become too over-confident). Coming through the hairpin onto the long straight she said the bike felt like it just pivoted round and followed her eyes. Unfortunately she didn't have any sliders, but she wasn't at all far off getting her knee down if she'd wanted. I timed her laps and she was knocking half a second off each lap every time she came round. Correct hanging off really works. I love teaching women things like that, unlike most men they listen and take it all in.

She's only been riding since last October too - a natural.