Your thoughts...

[The Stranger:Me]

Haha, have you SEEN my legs?! But all of this I will take into account, cheers

No, but I'm hard now in anticipation of the photos.
They better be good.

[Usarka]

Some countries would fail you for taking feet off pegs in a u-turn.

You don't know how lucky you are.

[Ender EnZed]

It's not a matter of lack of control, I'm very experienced as a rider (20000ks in my learner period) and have never dropped a bike (touching wood right now).

Do you always leave your feet hanging while riding at low speed? Try keeping them on the pegs, it might be against a fairly strong habit by now but I'd be very surprised if you didn't discover you had more control after a few feet-up U-turns and a bit more confidence that you're not going to drop it.

Plus you won't get other bikers thinking you're a tosser when you have a bigger bike and still hang your feet turning around at the rest stop. Seriously, there is nothing less cool.

[crazyhorse]

Congratulations on passing your restricted

[Spearfish]

Your a bit early with the feet off the pegs at the restricted test, you should have saved it for the full licence test...kicking chasing dogs is a whole 10 minutes of the full test, you fail if you wobble, swerve, or run the fecker over, you need to develop a full rotating hip joint (both sides if your brave)and an account, with good bulk discounts, at your local chiropractor.

[bogan]

Practice also, full steering-lock turns (bars held hard against steering-stop), managing large corrections of balance with your body weight, and small corrections only with tiny variations of the throttle.

Just remember not to put it in neutral eh steve

[The Stranger:Me]

Just remember not to put it in neutral eh steve

Or hit a cats eye. Man those things a fooken dangerous (apparently).

[CookMySock]

Just remember not to put it in neutral eh steve

Yeah mate, that was a bad fright. The biggest contributor to that little crunch, was the quite experienced pillion on the back who (quite rightly so) threw her weight into the turn, fully expecting me (quite rightly so) to pick it up with the throttle.

Steve

[Slyer]

I think they only time you should be sticking your feet out is when you are turning on gravel or loose ground. On smooth road surfaces there is no reason.
I've saved myself a few times with a quick kick to the ground after losing traction due to some metal on the road on a tight low-speed turn. But I only put my feet out when I felt it coming though, no need to leave them hanging out.

Admittedly I was going too fast for the conditions.

[bogan]

Yeah mate, that was a bad fright. The biggest contributor to that little crunch, was the quite experienced pillion on the back who (quite rightly so) threw her weight into the turn, fully expecting me (quite rightly so) to pick it up with the throttle.

Steve

yeh, probly a good idea to shift into first and use engine braking to slow to u-turn speed first i spose, just to make sure.

I think they only time you should be sticking your feet out is when you are turning on gravel or loose ground. On smooth road surfaces there is no reason.
I've saved myself a few times with a quick kick to the ground after losing traction due to some metal on the road on a tight low-speed turn. But I only put my feet out when I felt it coming though, no need to leave them hanging out.

Admittedly I was going too fast for the conditions.

You only need to chuck the inside foot out, leave outside on the peg for extra control. Sometimes preparing for a slide is the cause of the slide!

[Slyer]

Ah, yes. I meant foot.

[kevfromcoro]

Leave your feet on the pegs at all times....
Bloke went down my driveway with both feet out... he was waddling like a duck... the bike was all over the place.......

The only time you take them off... is to boot a a varmint.... or a fast moving doberman.......................

[CookMySock]

yeh, probly a good idea to shift into first and use engine braking to slow to u-turn speed first i spose, just to make sure.

Well that was the plan, but circumstances conspired against me to wreck that.

I was already in 2nd, and it went for 1st and got neutral (not hard to do), and I was running out of space on front of me quickly - I have to stop, or turn, so I decided to just roll around the turn using my momentum. In hindsight, I should have stopped. I didn't have the extra brainpower available to start hunting for first gear (newbie.)

Steve