| The more you wrap yourself around the tank the better. I don't hang off much either but it makes a lot of difference when you actually lean your body forward over the tank.
motogp boys lean so far over that they don't hang off much too but they are virtually stuck to the tank.
Additionally, being like that would make you bend your arms a lot and feel a lot more relaxed, instead of tensing.
Biggest piece of advice I received as well doing California is that your upper body has to move with the bike. As if the shoulders were connected to the upper fairing. You may lean further (Tamada style) but never less than the bike. If you look at the Picman pictures from the DSC in Rocky, you'll see a lot of people quite clearly having their shoulders working totally opposit to the rest of the bike like a MotoXer would do. Clearly a superbike does not turn like a Xer!!
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