GTR1400MAN wrote: Interesting. Didn't know it was an MSF thing. I don't remember seeing it in the book I read. I'll have to dig it out again.
If it's their big book published years ago, don't bother.
It was in the syllabus of their learner course. See next post for the RiderCoach 'range card' for the training.
GTR1400MAN wrote:Horse wrote:When a particular trainee was on the point of giving up riding because of difficulty getting out of their 'home' side road onto a major road. This sorted it.
Surely it was the small amount of angling the bike (which I coach riders to do) that made the difference, not the foot choice?
If all put together as a full combo, it's really effective.
The angling will help, yes, but bar turn and leaning (not something to do with the other foot down!) means the bike is already
turning - not just 'pointing'. Big difference.
GTR1400MAN wrote:Interesting. Didn't know it was an MSF thing. I don't remember seeing it in the book I read. I'll have to dig it out again.
There's plenty of left turn T junctions where a left foot down will have the rider either on the ground or having to hold up a leaning heavy bike, due to the steep camber of the road surface.
The foot down thing comes up regularly on some of my videos, with people firmly in one camp or the other. I have to say I personally use left foot down once in a blue moon, and they are situations where I have to.
But I've been doing it that way for a long time.
I learned in bluebook days and rode a succession of boingy-forked Bimmers. I would use right foot as an option eg camber, surface.
We had a trafpol on one of the MSF's post-test courses. He had been trained 'right foot down' (mandated, the way he explained it). MSF required, for part of the training and test, right foot up. It really played with his head!
Your 'standard' is how you drive alone, not how you drive during a test.