TT Isle of Man: Ride on the Edge 2 released on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and PC is a very successful game, which allows you to immerse yourself in the wonderful world of corse your strada and to participate in the legendary Tourist trophy on 'Isle of Man. Unlike traditional track racing, however, having to face road races with very powerful bikes requires a different approach than usual, in order to prevent the fun from quickly giving way to frustration and nervousness.
Here are five practical tips to improve your results on the track right away.
Calm down with big displacements
If you're just starting TT Isle of Man: Ride on the Edge 2, jump right in Superbike 1000 is not not a good idea at all. They are powerful bikes, with a lot of top speed but also heavier and less manageable than the 600.
It must be very sweet with the accelerator and know very well where to turn off the gas, penalty an insured bang. If you are a beginner, a Supersport 600 or, better still, a historic small displacement motorcycle it's perfect to start getting familiar with the tracks and road driving.
Memorize the tracks
The road races take place on roads that are normally open to traffic, nothing to do with permanent, leveled race tracks with large escape routes. The road does not forgive and do not be fooled by the radar that tells you the course of the track in front of you, because limiting yourself to knowing the type of curve and which way it turns, is enough on the track but in this case absolutely not.
You have to know if for example there is a sidewalk inside or outside, if any a bump or there are some disconnections that could break the bike's set-up. All this information the you can only learn by turning, so arm yourself with patience and start memorizing the tracks. If the route is long, like that of the TT (60 km.), divide it into sectors and learn those individually before putting it all together.
Watch out for overtaking
Overtaking on the road at TT Isle of Man: Ride on the Edge 2 isn't as easy as you might think. The curves are often close together and at high speed, or close together but very round and to be covered with only one trajectory to avoid ending up wide. If you make a mistake at this juncture, the fall is 90% assured because braking the bike when leaning is highly risky.
The best points to overtake are the long straights, so arm yourself with patience and wait for the right moment to overtake your opponents. On the road it is not important to make the lap time, it is important to be constantly fast throughout the race or the time trial.
Yes to manual controls, no to driving aids
TT Isle of Man: Ride on the Edge 2 driving aids are only for the beginning, then they reveal themselves only an obstacle. The automatic transmission is not optimally set and all that costs seconds on the stopwatch. Likewise, by default the front and rear brakes are managed automatically by the brake button, however it is much more useful to drive with separate controls: being able to act on the rear brake helps to avoid wheelies on bumps or to slow the bike slightly in certain situations.
Apply techniques like it short shifting it also helps out from hairpins to preserve the tires and avoid any high side. Watch out foranti-wheelie, tends to do lose acceleration, cosím come il traction control. The driving position is an equally fundamental command to learn to succeed in this game: loading the weight forward on the straights helps to prevent wheelies, while shifting your weight back under braking helps prevent the so-called "stubble“, Or rather the lifting of the rear tire.
Tire management
Road races unlike track races, they do not include the use of thermo blankets. The starts are often reminiscent of rally starts, with the drivers launched within seconds of each other. This instinctively leads to wanting to seek the maximum possible performance from the beginning, but this mentality hides strong pitfalls: a motorcycle from 200 horses with full tank e cold tires it can make you become helpless passengers at any moment.
Be sweets in the folds and try not to put the bike in crisis with maximum lean angles to be reached in an instant, at least until the tires warm up.
Here are our five practical tips to immediately improve your results on the track with TT Isle of Man: Ride on the Edge 2 released on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and PC
► TT Isle of Man: Ride on the Edge 2 is a racing-Simulation-Sport game developed and published by Bigben Interactive for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch, the video game was released on 19/03/2020 The version for Nintendo Switch came out on 14/05/2020
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