[Is there some trick to steering a motorcycle?]

On 2/27/2021 at 3:23 PM, Waialae said:

In RL you don't steer with the handlebars except in emergencies or at very low speed, because steering with the handlebars is jerky and potentially dangerous (could flip the bike). Instead, you lean your body left or right and allow physics to steer. Problem is, using arrow keys to steer an SL bike is like steering with handlebars. It jerks the bike around and makes it less controllable. Some more recent SL motorcycles allow the rider to adjust the steering sensitivity. That makes turns a little less jerky, but an SL bike will never steer as smoothly as an RL bike. It's just something you get used to with practice.

As a further explanation, depending on what kind of motorcycle you have, you would need to go into the "config" notecard inside the motorcycle and adjust the sensitivity.  One I had was set to "10" and left/right would send me off the road.  I set it to "3" and it was nice and easy adjusting straightaways, but then full turns are a bit tougher.

 Note that the motorcycle may show as "no mod" in inventory/rezzed, but for at least some motorcycles the config notecard is editable.  Make a backup of the notecard contents just in case.

 

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