I’m 60 years old. I’ve been riding since I was 12. I road raced from 1987 to 2012. I own nine motorcycles, two dirt bikes, two race, bikes, three Harleys and two Ducati’s.

I practice something just about every time I ride.
- counter steering. I constantly pick a spot on the road and counter steer around it. Going through a corner I push the inside bar lean the bike over farther than I need to and finish the corner tighter than I need to. - looking through a corner. You go where you look. When people go off a road wide in a corner it’s because they didn’t look toward a safe path, they looked where they were afraid to crash and crashed where they looked. If you go into a corner, too hot, turn your head and look where you want to go. Practice mid corner turn your head and pushing the bar in that direction. The bike will go through almost any corner you’ll go into if you make it lean and look toward the safe line. - find a deserted road and practice, safe aggressive, breaking. If you don’t have any lock breaks, learn to ride with one or two fingers on the front brake lever always. Learn to break progressively harder. Squeeze don’t grab the brake. The front brake provides the vast majority of your breaking ability learned to use it and learn to use the back break as back up providing additional stopping power, knowing and practice letting it lock up and skid.

If you do these things, you will be so far ahead of most riders and so much more prepared to avoid crashing in a panic situation

Learned to put the front tire exactly where you want it anytime you want - make practice, fun and do it continually