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When cornering around a bend to the right (to the left in right hand lane drive countries) if you follow the line as if you are a racer (i.e.. the natural racing line) you will find your wheels ending up on the the line in the center of the road, and therefore your head and the majority of your bike will be hanging way over on the wrong side of the road! Not good! - People have actually had their heads knocked clean off doing this! It is advisable to try and hug into the curve of the bend in the middle of your lane, so that no part of your body crosses the central line.
This can feel a little disconcerting at first if you are not used to riding like this, but a tip that really helps is to imagine another white central line in the middle of your own lane, which you can then safely follow the "racing line" through, keeping yourself safe from fatally overlapping with the traffic flowing from the other direction! (In most cases, unless some idiot comes around on your side of the road (as they frequently do), but at least you have more of a chance of survival and evasive action not being right out in the middle of the road!)
Stay alive people!
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