[BlueNinjaF18]

Originally Posted by DannoXYZ

Well, don't give up! At least you've learned to avoid gravel.

It may seem counterintuitive, but a lot of beginner slow down too much. What happens is they tend to cut into corners too early and too tight, then they slow down too much and start tipping over. Then they panic and give it too much gas too suddenly trying to recover. The problem isn't that you gave it too much throttle, that's just result of and side-effect of slowing down too much.

Practice doing wide sweeping turns in parking lots. Do 50-ft rings around a cone. Do 50-ft rings around 4-cones. Note that by tying all 4 90-degree corners into one big loop, you don't have to slow down for each one?

New concept call "maintenance throttle" came about. Don't complete!y let off throttle in corner, you need some throttle on to keep speed steady in corner because cornering naturally scrubs off speed.

Hey I really appreciate this! I didn't know that until you posted this. Thanks.