So you want to get your knee down, and know more..??

[bugjuice]

read up then.
http://www.sasbk.co.za/track_day_bible.htm

Should help even the worst rider (no names), corner better and understand what's going on between your legs :scooter:

[Two Smoker]

read up then.
http://www.sasbk.co.za/track_day_bible.htm

Should help even the worst rider (no names), corner better and understand what's going on between your legs :scooter:

Shouldnt this be titled "Bugjuice wants to get his knee down, so i read about it here...

[Quartida]

Loving their little Zen biker at the top of the first page.

Not loving the hard to read font. (Or is that just my computer?)

[Quartida]

:slap: Or the crap user of the computer that didn't think to use the "increase font" button.

[bugjuice]

Shouldnt this be titled "Bugjuice wants to get his knee down, so i read about it here...
pfft... i'll give u the learn.. :bleh:

[Qkchk]

One word comes to mind.............................


SQUID!

:nya: :nya: :lol: :lol:

[inlinefour]

will print it out once I get to work.:innocent:

[Two Smoker]

pfft... i'll give u the learn.. :bleh:

Shut up... just coz im slow...

[yungatart]

I'm sure its full of useful tips and info - but FAR too small and difficult to read with my old eyes......

[Coyote]

Far too long for my attention span

[DemonWolf]

haha.. "....seriously spanked by the law"

[Ixion]

Very interesting. But it needs more equations. Still reckon it's posing , but, Hailwood never bothered, nor did Ago. Or Frith or Woods.

[sugilite]

So you want to get your knee down, and know more..??

Why not just bend down and put your knee down on the ground, what are you a cripple? :nya:

[sugilite]

Very interesting. But it needs more equations. Still reckon it's posing , but, Hailwood never bothered, nor did Ago. Or Frith or Woods.

Far from it, (posing) when on the track I go into a corner with the tyres right on the limit of traction, everything feels a little loose and hairy, once the knee is down it has the effect of locking everything in place, a little like a out-rigger on a canoe. It has a stabilizing effect. When I'm really on it I also lever the bike off my knee to get it on to a fatter part of the tyre to gain more traction. I've also saved the frount end propping the bike up off my knee as well.

I'm sure the reason the racing greats of old did not do it, is they simply never thought to.

On the road, I have a totally different style and hardly ever scrape my knee, unless I need to itch it or somthing. :lol:

[sAsLEX]

I'm sure the reason the racing greats of old did not do it, is they simply never thought to.


Think it is faster that interviews the one who started the whole thing off in gp, just put tape round his knees in the start

[sugilite]

My understanding that Kenny Roberts started to do it 1st, at least properly. He initially duct taped squashed coke cans to his knees!

Just duct tape is horrendous, your knee grabs at the road and the bike attempts to pivot on it, I know!

I was highly pissed years ago when racing leathers used to make the cops hyperventilate at the sight of you, I used to wear smart casual pants over my leathers (with Jacket) I put my knee down by accident and was immediately awarded a bloody great hole in said pants :angry2:

[kickingzebra]

Hmm, good so far... still reading!

[OMG]

read up then.
http://www.sasbk.co.za/track_day_bible.htm

Should help even the worst rider (no names), corner better and understand what's going on between your legs :scooter:
Read it, but still don't understand what's going on between my legs :blip:

[Kwaka-Kid]

theres a site about it? havnt clicked hte link yet. Just roll up to the racetrack and go for a blat, pokeypokey that knee thing at the ground and boom.

Aye Buggie? :P

[RiderInBlack]

For those having trouble reading the font on the "KneeDown" documents as viewed on-line, they are JPEG images, so are "resized" to fit your screen. To see them "full size" go to the bottom right hand corner of the document/image you have opened and when the little square with the arrows pointing out shows there, left click on it (this makes any on-line image go to full size, rather than just ta fit ya screen). You should be able ta read it then.

[Motu]

My understanding that Kenny Roberts started to do it 1st, at least properly.

Yes Kenny Roberts was the first rider to really develope the style - but even he says he saw other people doing it,or at least parts of it,he just put the whole thing together and made it work.So it was going to happen anyway,it just needed someone with all the pieces of the puzzle.I was riding that bike in my avatar in 1973,and would drop a cheek off the seat and point my knee into the turn...I had seen no one do this,I just found it helped pull the heavy slow steering bike down into the turn.Sometimes the time is right and the whole world changes overnight.

[R6_kid]

From the last page of text, probably the greatest point of all...

"Until you have done it, you don't know that you don't need too"

[sAsLEX]

and would drop a cheek off the seat and point my knee into the turn...

motu admits to being a sprot bike rider!:gob:

[Ixion]

In its day , that WAS a sprotbike.

[Insanity_rules]

OK I get it now. I've been trying to corner faster for quite a while now and now I see the geometry properly it makes sense.