How slow in 1st gear?

[musicman]

Ok, so we have had a thread on how fast bikes can go in first gear (http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=89443), I'm now wondering how slow everyone's bike can go in 1st gear (without the bike bunny-hopping or stalling).

My old 250 (Yamaha Zeal) can go right down to just before I stop, so I only need to pull the clutch in just as I stop. My current bike, however, can only get down to 11km/h (digital speedo), any slower and I have to pull the clutch in, which makes slow tight manoeuvers a PITA.

So how slow can your bike go?

[slofox]

I could walk faster...without raising a sweat.

[fatzx10r]

about 15kph :yawn:

[Fatjim]

25 kph. Sad.

[MSTRS]

Since my bike will do 150 in 1st at redline, then theory (and the calculator) tells me that it'll do about 9.75kph at idle.
Of course, I can 'feather' the clutch and drop that speed considerably...

[quallman1234]

3-4kph. My sisters little CRF150F would do fuck all! Just turning over

[Blackshear]

No idea. A chugga chugga slow walk at idle.

[Taz]

The Guzzi and beemer will idle along quite nicely. The ducati doesn't like being under 3000 rpm.

[Howsie]

I could walk faster...without raising a sweat.

Ditto:lol:

[scracha]

748r....hmm...whilst not happy around town in 1st I don't have to start clutch slipping until about 20.

[skidMark]

Buy a harley then you'll win.

[Ralph]

Yeah about 20-25km, it sucks on road works or in slow traffic that you can't get past. But it makes up for it at the other end of the scale :devil2:

[jtzzr]

I could probably get ( who the fuck cares?) out of the bird.

[beyond]

The mighty GSX1400 will pootle along very nicely at idle :)

[hayd3n]

about 15 kays

[WolfCollared]

dead still if you balance it right, front brakes on one foot on the pedal one off!!!...its easy on a bicycle!

[Blackshear]

dead still if you balance it right, front brakes on one foot on the pedal one off!!!...its easy on a bicycle!

Try that with a 20-odd kg DH MTB with 9 gears and all'round sussy. It's nice and all. But you try to pedal or stop and it's like a giant keg full of water under you!
You one of them TRIALS men?

[headlesschicken]

Try that with a 20-odd kg DH MTB with 9 gears and all'round sussy. It's nice and all. But you try to pedal or stop and it's like a giant keg full of water under you!
You one of them TRIALS men?

um..... maybe you should practice riding your bike more.:sweatdrop cause i used to do that with my bike being 2/5ths of my weight :woohoo:

[Mr Merde]

Suzuki GS 1200 SS

Playing around with throttle and clutch control I can get down to 2kph running smoothly.

Do this quite often on thos motoway onramps that are controlled by those traffic light system