Riding "no hands"

**ricksta** · 12th May 2005, 23:22

Originally Posted by FIZZERMAN

I don't want to try and sound like a hero, but as long as I have a straight road, I can stand on the seat, two hands up, and wave my willie

what a crack up!!! do that the next time you're speeding towards a speed camera!

**bugjuice** · 13th May 2005, 09:07

oh great. Don't blame me for this.
I can take my hands off the bars, but its not something you should do really. It's not like taking your hands off the steering wheel. I'm not going to bleet on, cos I haven't read all the posts, but yeah, I can do it until the revs die off, but I make a habbit of not doing it..
and don't blame me

One hand would have been fine

**vifferman** · 13th May 2005, 09:25

I've had a couple of bikes with tyre balance problems and/or tyres that weren't suited to them, and if I took my hands off the bars going downhill, they would get handlebar shake of epic (PutYourHandsBackOnTheBarsImmediatelyOrYouWillCras h'n'Die!!) proportions.

**crashe** · 13th May 2005, 10:25

Well as you can see in my picture, I do ride with no hands.
And I can go around a nice curve with no hands.
I tend to do it most times on a downhill slope or when I have speed up enough to keep me going on the straight and wave both hands up and down as thou my hands and arms are wings.... I'm Flying and enjoying the freedom.

I also stand up on my back pegs to stretch the butt. But I keep my hands on the bars.

I started out doing it by lifting my hands off the bars by about 1 inch and then slowly increased it to what I can do now. Its a good way to stretch your arms when on a long ride.

But when I 'fly' I bring my knees in to hug the tank and that gives me better control. When I stop 'flying' my knees go back to where they were...
I keep a really eye on the road while doing it.

**Pixie** · 13th May 2005, 23:01

Originally Posted by pyrocam

I was going up the northwestern I noticed a biker coming at me from the opposite direction. stand up fully on his pegs and look at his headlight. either he was
(A) checking his headlight if it was on
(B) telling me that my light was on full beam (which it was, better be seen and anoyying than not seen, its a 20w bulb)
or (C) a super-duper Hello your another biker
since there was a motion that looked like a nod when he was up there.

?

Or (D) Mooning the drive behind him

**Deano** · 13th May 2005, 23:12

Originally Posted by justsomeguy

How???

And if your bike starts to drift to one side....mine does to the left... does it mean somethings out of alignment??

Often the road camber will make the bike drift to the left. Use body weight to counter it's effect.

How about placing both hands on the tank and raising your feet (straddle wise) off the footpegs. Pretty easy really.

**Suney** · 13th May 2005, 23:20

rossi does it everytime he wins
so he does it alot :P

**Ghost Lemur** · 14th May 2005, 00:20

Originally Posted by Suney

rossi does it everytime he wins
so he does it alot :P

You've noticed the no-hands-stand-up-play-with-arse rossi routine too.

Another to look at for no hand skill is Christian Pfiffer. He can do no hand figure 8's as well as ever decreasing no hand circles.

**Zed** · 14th May 2005, 00:26

Originally Posted by pyrocam

...I dont want to learn anything stupid, but whats the deal. would any of you take both hands off the bars for any reason?

I take both hands off the grips (usually to straigten my back up and have a stretch) only when going in a straight line and usually down a hill or coming to a gradual stop - it's easy to do if your front end doesn't wobble! You shouldn't be attempting this around a corner unless it's very wide, and then you use your bodyweight to steer as Deano said.

Originally Posted by pyrocam

...I noticed a biker coming at me from the opposite direction. stand up fully on his pegs and look at his headlight. either he was
(A) checking his headlight if it was on
(B) telling me that my light was on full beam (which it was, better be seen and anoyying than not seen, its a 20w bulb)
or (C) a super-duper Hello your another biker
since there was a motion that looked like a nod when he was up there.

Probably none of the above, but I liked (C)

More than likely he was stretching his legs! Coincidentally I was doing the same on my bike today when I got a slight cramp.

**SuperDave** · 14th May 2005, 01:05

Well, I see many of you mention how easy it is to ride no hands so I was wondering, does the ability to do such a thing rely a lot on the bike itself? I've tried a few times on the FXR, but after a few secs it begins to angle itself.

Is this because I personally am over correcting with my balance on the seat, or does it have a lot to do with the fact that the bike is so light and that it turns in really easily?

**Biff** · 14th May 2005, 01:14

The first time I tried taking both hands off the grips it was to show off when pulling up to a set of lights in a busy shopping centre (I was 18 - I was allowed to be a bit stupid). I ended up doing a massive speed wobble which nearly high sided me off.

Anyhoo - fast forward to today - I tend to do it when on long rides, on open clear roads, with little of no traffic around, in order to stretch or read a newspaper. I draw the line at attempting the crossword though. Now that would be stupid.

**Stevo** · 14th May 2005, 01:35

I only take my hands off the bars when I want to spread out.

Seriously though I ride a Honda and nothing is a problem for a Honda. Least of all straights or curves at high speed.............

**Blakamin** · 14th May 2005, 08:02

i take the hands off the bars every night for the last 800m before home.... after all the twisties and highway stupidness (mine and cages), its good to have a bit of stretch.... stick it into 4th or 5th and let it idle along at 50-60kph...... just before i do that, I stand up for 100 metres...