MotoGP Bike Lean- Scrape them Knees

Tired of the stiff, upright motorcycle physics in vanilla GTA 5? (Or maybe not, but you just found this mod and it intrigued you.) Bring true track-day aggression to the streets of Los Santos. This mod completely overhauls the handling mechanics for all sports bikes (no choppers (like Franklin’s Bagger), no dirt bikes, and no scooters) in the game, allowing riders to lean deep into corners just like real MotoGP professionals.

Features:
Aggressive MotoGP Lean Angles
Knee-Scraping Physics (ouch)
Supports all in-game offline mode sports bikes, in total – 7 bikes (Akuma, Bati, Double-T, Nemesis, PCJ, Ruffian, Vader)
All bikes’ other handling features stay almost the same as before

Installation:

Automatic:
1) OpenIV
2) go to “mods/update/update.rpf/common/data”
3) Drag and drop my “handling.meta” into OpenIV which replaces the game’s existing “handling.meta”

Manual (If you have handling mods installed beforehand, such as Drive V, etc, and you do not want to hamper your existing mod):
1) OpenIV
2) Go to “mods/update/update.rpf/common/data”
3) Go to “Manual” folder in my mod, open each .xml file, and copy the whole code
4) In OpenIV, “handling.meta”, right-click, click on “Edit”, Search for the vehicle, replace the code with the one you copied
5) Repeat for all the vehicles, or only a few ones, according to your desire

How I made this mod:
1) Lower the vecCentreOfMassOffset Z-axis position to around -0.20 or slightly higher
2) Decrease the fSteeringLock value by approximately half
3) Increase fTractionCurveMax value & fTractionCurveMin value by 0.8
4) Increase fMaBankAngle value (the actual lean angle) to a value of 60-80

(Things get easier if you use Real Time Handling Editor by ikt, but as of right now, it sounds complicated.)

Credits:

Eoin Gaming
Real Time Handling Editor by ikt (I used it to create my mod, and you can make yours too!)
In-game Screenshot by jedijosh920 (for all the cool, ‘simple’ screenshots I took without wasting time in Rockstar Editor)
AI Models, Gemini and ChatGPT, for guiding me a lot

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File	File size
MotoGP Lean	73 KB