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Actually, no. The mechanism of arresting the slide is more complicated than just propping the bike up with your foot, but it’s not just something that just “happens as a result of having your foot out”, it is part of the reason to put it out there in the first place.

It totally is! Take a look on supermotojunkie.com, especially the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic forum (http://supermotojunkie.com/forumdisplay.p…). The single Thumpertalk supermoto forum is pretty bare by comparison.

That’s an impressively broad dismissal of all us supermoto racers who do, in fact, catch a slide now and then by putting a little bit of extra weight on the sliding foot, to change our weight distribution on the bike. I wouldn’t say I do it a lot, but it does happen, and if you’re not completely crossed up on the bike…