Technique & My Fear of Sharp Corners

[macko]

I ride almost exclusively on the Desert Classic in SoMo. I've fallen quite a bit over the past few months due to rustyness and basic lack of bike control, the most common spill I take occurs when I'm rounding a corner at med-high speed. The front tire starts to slip in the loose sand and the bike ends up sliding to the outside of the turn while I tip over in the direction I'm leaning.

I'm trying to not turn the wheel so much and lean the bike, but I think my body is leaning too much with the bike. Would that make sense? What is your thought process going through sandy turns at high speeds?

[Trainwreck]

It may not be so much a technique issue as your tire setup. If you are running something like Hutchinson Pythons all you have to do is look at sand and the bike falls over. I have had good luck with tires like WTB Exiwolf 2.1's and now I am running Specialized Adrenalines on 2 of my bikes. These things rail. I ride that area a lot too and although I don't power the corners excessively hard I haven't had a problem with sliding out.

Be careful man, I saw the picture of that leg. And oh, sorry but I had to snicker at the shower post. That was priceless. :thumb:

[skatetokil]

i suck at sand as well and I have nice tires. somebody explain how to not crash.

[stinkyboy]

I rode the Classic a couple weeks ago on some Maxxis CrossMarks and could fly through the sand "pits" but fast cornering was impossible. A buddy was running a 2.5 Kujo and a 2.7 Big Earl and had the opposite results.