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I think that I'm going to agree with the "he's making his bike twice as wide" crowd on this. It's the inside leg and no one is going to try diving inside of you when your leg is hanging out in space. The couple of times that I've seen him do it, it has looked more like he was hanging it out there in case he lost the rear on braking.
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Man I don't know! I weight the pegs going into corners, with my foot off, I'm not sure how that would feel... besides, why not do it all the time? It seems they only do it once in a while. I'm starting a new category, Rossi started doing it as a joke to see if everyone would copy him.
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Nah, he's not stomping, he could do that without lifting the leg. If you watch it, it's a very slow movement to stick the leg out and not something you would do if you were stomping with the other side. Almost looks like he is doing a stablization movement as if he was walking a wire in the circus.
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They do it in practice when no ones around them, there is something else to it besides that. I have seen Rossi do it while he is a good ways in the lead with no one around him.
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id buy that, i do something similar to smooth out creases and twists in the leg of my jeans. why not?
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I heard a while back that Rossi started doing it because it helped him brake harder for late braking. Looks silly but if you are VR you can do whatever the fuck you want and no one is going to make fun of you.
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It's catching on around the world.
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