I can put my feet flat on the road with bent knees!

[PrincessBandit]

I've finally had el bandito lowered. The seat was already at it's lowest setting (770mm) but even with my built up boots my legs were still completely straight to get my feet flat on the road. Even the piss-issting drizzle couldn't stop me for taking it for the first blat to experience what it was like to come to a stop with flexed knees - and feet still flat on the ground!

Straddling the bike to walk it backward down the drive into the garage was such a breeze, and even my boot slipping on a wet patch didn't bother me like it used to.

Balu fitted the dog bones over the weekend and welded the shortened side stand at work today. I know it probably sounds crazy that I'm so excited over this, but this is a big deal to me; I guess most of you blokes and taller women out there won't really appreciate what it means for a short arse like me.

:wings::wings::wings:

[FJRider]

I've never owned a bike that I could sit on and remain flat footed. I just learned to wheel bikes backward (if necessary) by getting off and wheeling it back by standing beside it. A practiced skill ALL motorcyclists shoul aquire. I am a short-arse and manage (most times) with my FJ.

I do take care how and where I park. It helps ...

[Kickaha]

http://www.shortsupport.org/Health/Leg-Lengthening/

[SMOKEU]

I've never ridden a bike where I couldn't put both feet on the ground with my knees bent quite far in.

[Little Miss Trouble]

Geez you short arse, 770 is tiny! I've just traded up from my R6 to a Honda Predator with a seat height of 825, I've just learnt to manage with just the balls of my feet down.

[sil3nt]

How short are you? My partner is 151cm (5 foot 1) and she can't comfortable touch the ground on anything other than the GPX she rides. She can't even reach the bars comfortably on my VFR 400 :blink:

Have been looking at future bikes for her and nothing stands out as being good for a shorty (other than cruisers). Might have to get something she likes and lower it.

[PrincessBandit]

Geez you short arse, 770 is tiny! I've just traded up from my R6 to a Honda Predator with a seat height of 825, I've just learnt to manage with just the balls of my feet down.

Yeah, both my parents blessed me with duck's disease - bum almost scraping the ground...:blink:


How short are you? My partner is 151cm (5 foot 1) and she can't comfortable touch the ground on anything other than the GPX she rides. She can't even reach the bars comfortably on my VFR 400 :blink:

Have been looking at future bikes for her and nothing stands out as being good for a shorty (other than cruisers). Might have to get something she likes and lower it.

I am 5'1" in bare feet, and while I've always loved the bandit as it was, it's soooo nice to have comfortable contact with the ground rather than having to just grit my teeth and get on with it. If there was anything I could change about my physical dimensions it would always have been longer legs but alas, short of resorting to the suggestions of a previous post, longer legs ain't never something I'll have.

[FJRider]

If there was anything I could change about my physical dimensions it would always have been longer legs but alas, short of resorting to the suggestions of a previous post, longer legs ain't never something I'll have.

With all the leg pulling you get ... it supprises me they aren't longer ... :lol:

[hellokitty]

Geez you short arse, 770 is tiny! I've just traded up from my R6 to a Honda Predator with a seat height of 825, I've just learnt to manage with just the balls of my feet down.

:laugh: on the BMW I had, I was on the balls of my feet too - or I could flat foot on one side and have my other leg dangling in the breeze... made people look at me funny though. Always fun on uneven ground when I had to hop on one foot!

Seriously though, it must be so much nicer to have the bike lower... you must feel so much happier and more secure with the everyday things that tall people take for granted :msn-wink:

[Little Miss Trouble]

I guess that extra inch or two *does* matter ;)

[YellowDog]

There's a guy I see around Glenfield on a GS650 whom is on absolute tippy-toes when he stops.

He's amazingly agile and jumps on and off the bike when he needs to.

[haydes55]

I can't even touch the ground on both sides of the bike very well (tip toes on both sides just) I'm 1.75m tall. I just leave my left foot on the footpeg and stand on my right foot. (Have a sprained right ankle at the moment so I dusted the cobwebs off my cage and had to refrain from doing the secret KB wave when I saw other bikes :shutup:)

[Ender EnZed]

In my experience the factors that come into play when handling any bike while stationary are:

1) Confidence
2) Upper body strength
3) Height




Helpful advice, I know.

[Mom]

and feet still flat on the ground!

:wings::wings::wings:

How cool! You wont regret it I promise. Make sure you have adjusted the brake and gear lever too, though you may have already done that for your "platform boots". Only one thing to be aware of though, you will have shortened the overall length of the bike and it will make a difference in how it handles. You will find it tends to want to tuck the front a little more easily, but once you get used to the feeling all is fine. You should come up here so we can compare their collective beauty :love: Did you see I have LED's on Millie now?


Have been looking at future bikes for her and nothing stands out as being good for a shorty (other than cruisers). Might have to get something she likes and lower it.

I also have issues with the ground being too close to my bum :laugh: It took ages of looking to settle on the bandit, and with a few small adjustments including building up the soles of my boots she is just perfect.

[Maha]

Yeah, both my parents blessed me with duck's disease - bum almost scraping the ground...:blink:



Come on! Katman is 6'3'' and 115kgs...what happened there? :shifty:

[Little Miss Trouble]

In my experience the factors that come into play when handling any bike while stationary are:

1) Confidence
2) Upper body strength
3) Height




Helpful advice, I know.

Also CoG of the bike, and funny as it might sound, the rider body position I.e. if you're both stretching to reach the ground, and leaning across the tank sportsbike style this steals a lot of core strength.

Being 5'3" I have a few more options open to me than some of the others ^^ but I refuse to build my boots up etc - even in the most diabolical weather I feel comfortable with either the balls of both feet, or one flat foot and a tiptoe on the tarmac.

[sil3nt]

Turns out my partner is 5'5" not 5'1" like she has being trying to tell me :rolleyes:

Don't know what she is complaining about!

Trouble now is she has fallen in love with an Aprilia RS125 sitting on one today :facepalm:

[gijoe1313]

Hehehe, well at least it won't be too far to fall if you trip over! :innocent: Good to hear you finally got the mods done, always remember watching how you do a meerkat impression when you come to a stop/starting off on the bike! :laugh:

Now, have you got the stebel mod as part of your noise making profession? :devil2:

My bikes are feeling lonely now that the numbers of bikes at AC have dropped by one!