Adhesion...

This has nothing to do with jogging. The picture above is from a MotoGP race at Laguna Seca and is from an ad for Bridgstone tires. I'm a huge NASCAR and superbike fan and when I was sponsored by LEW Composites (they make $5000 bicycle wheels) I had the opportunity to live in Las Vegas and work for them. They paid my rent and paid me well to work 2 days per week in their shop. The shop was located at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway and I operated a robot that cut sheets of uni directional graphite. We would then lay the pieces in to molds and would make bicycle wheels, nose cones for formula race cars, NASCAR engine parts, and carbon parts for the motorcycles you see above. At one point, Jeff Gordon was using parts that I helped to make. One day I went over to the track to watch a test run by a superbike rider and got to talk to the mechanic. He said all the fast and light parts in the world don't mean a thing if you don't have good tires. Adhesion... a race comes down to how well your tires stick to the road, simple as that. Tires and cohones I think. Superbike riders hit speeds of 180+ MPH on some tracks.