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Originally Posted by Motofool
Accelerating during a turn [...] unloads and makes more complying the front suspension (easier for the tire to follow road undulations = front contact patch keep contact with surface and suffers less dramatic changes of shape = good for front traction).
It also moves the whole dynamics away from the influence of the nervous steering (sudden changes of trajectory and induced lateral forces/deformations) of the front tire and closer to the more stable condition of a coin describing a circular trajectory while leaned (unicycle or motorcycle during a leaned wheelie).
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Thanks for the feedback Motofool (and others). I had a feeling that my reasoning would be roughly accurate but that there were more variables involved that I wasn't factoring in. The stuff quoted above are things I didn't know about and hadn't considered.