I’ve got a question. Perhaps it’s answered above, but just watching a moto gp bike go through a turn with the rider basically on the ground got me questioning the difference between road cornering and mountain bike cornering. Is there a difference?
Mountain bike cornering, at least according to a few videos I’ve watched seems to exaggerate the weight and body shifted to the outside of the corner with the inside arm being mostly straight forcing the outside arm to be bent and requiring knees to point to the corner to give the bike top tube room to lean over given the disconnect between the bike and the body.
Pictures of road cornering look somewhat different to me. Perhaps the same concept, but just to different degrees. I’m hoping someone can say, it’s the same or it’s not.
This picture of JA shows weight on the outside foot, but his body is not overly shifted over to the ouside. His arms seem mostly neutral and it looks clearly different than the mountain bike photo. But is it really the same? Does the traction on the road make the severity of the bike/body disconnect less needed on a turn like the one JA is taking? If the turn were sharper, would he look more like the mountain biker? I can’t say I’ve ever seen a road racer look like the mountain bike picture.
However, this does look suspiciously closer. Is it just that the turn PS is making is sharper, so therefore he’s doing it more? and the fact that he’s in aero position kind of hides the fact that his inside arm is extended?
Sorry for the elementary question, just seems like the moto gp bike, road bike, and mountain bike are all doing the same thing, but differently. Or are they?
