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There are way too many things you could be doing wrong to give you any useful answer. Spend the time and money to attend one of the riding schools available. I favor Code but it doesn't really matter for your first school which.

Trained instructors can see more in 5 minutes of watching you ride than a year of advise from firends.

Some general things to work on.

Let go of the damn bars. Chances are you are too stiff on the bars and gripping too hard. Both can cause unwanted inputs to the bars causing the bike to feel nervous.

Learn how to sit properly on the machine. Balls of feet on pegs, butt towards the rear, bent at the hips, not the waist, back relatively straight with the head erect, arms loose on the bars and bent at the elbows. If you can't get any or all of this, you need to modify the bike or yourself until you can. No meaningful control avalable any other way.

Get your weight right. You need not hang your butt off the motorcycle or get a knee down to acheive good weight control. In fact, the knee is only down on racers as a lean angle sensor. It is not an outrigger nor is its primary purpose weight shfit. You carry most of your mass in your upper torso and that is what you need to shift inside, forward and down to help with cornering. Try shifting the torso, smoothly, inside as you turn in for the corner. If you are sitting on the bike correctly, you won't need to use the bars for this, it can all be done with the muscles of the torso.

The point of all of the above is to lessen the lean of the bike in the turn at the same speed via shifting the center of mass inwards. This allows the suspension to work better due to the more vertical angle, the tire to acheive more traction due to the change in the contact position, and the rider to help avoid the panic reaction you are getting.

The fellows over on the BMWRT board are running seminars on the stuff I just discussed called Riding Smart. Small groups out on the streets with instructors and video re-enforcement. I have participated and it greatly improved my riding. There is one coming up in Georga and another in the NorthEast shortly. You might wish to get involved. There are no fees involved other than motel and travel expenses. You should have good tires fitted.