How much lean

[quickbuck]

I've never managed to get my knee down. I'll put it on my 'to do list' next time I'm out and about.

Ummm,
Make that out and about Ruapuna, rather than Sockburn.....

[ducatilover]

I just rolled a smoke and put my knee on the floor, I'm Rossis wet dream.

[Gremlin]

I've never managed to get my knee down. I'll put it on my 'to do list' next time I'm out and about.

It really isn't much to talk about. That said, it's one of those things that if you haven't done, you treat it like the holy Grail, and if you have, it's not that great.

Go to a track day, it should be quite easy if conditions, your bike and tyres etc are all good. My first track day, I went from no knee down to knee down on almost every corner, it got that easy.

[Goblin]

I've never managed to get my knee down. I'll put it on my 'to do list' next time I'm out and about.

Just make sure you do it on a track and that you're wearing knee sliders.

[EJK]

Knee down in jeans is the shizzz

[Number One]

I've never managed to get my knee down. I'll put it on my 'to do list' next time I'm out and about.

Perhaps put it on your 'to do list' when next you head to the track.

I have gotten my knee down a sum total of twice. Once in the wet riding hubbies RG50 round at the slipway wearing race leathers and get up...other time on the road....I can recommend the first but not the second.

BTW even *mere mortals* can get their elbows down while cornering. I have pics but can't access them from this pc. Oh how I do love that man

[ducatilover]

It really isn't much to talk about. That said, it's one of those things that if you haven't done, you treat it like the holy Grail, and if you have, it's not that great.

Basically this is it, I made it my holy grail, once achieved I wondered what all the fuss was about. Does look uber cool though.

[Juzz976]

I find if I lean enough (on da 2fidy) I gotta lift foot off peg and keep knee on tank, the rear end skips and slides a bit which slows me down. pretty much just run outta rubber.

Haven't gone too crazy on the thou yet, but chicken strips are alot smaller due to yesterdays weather.

[Robtharalson]

Physics, skill, plain 'ol luck, and in this case divine intervention.
Amazing! That's about as far as the Russian ice racers lean, and they have 8 CM steel spikes sticking out of their tires.

Rob

[psycho22]

Physics, skill, plain 'ol luck, and in this case divine intervention.
Amazing! That's about as far as the Russian ice racers lean, and they have 8 CM steel spikes sticking out of their tires.

Rob

Thats some insane lean angle!

[doc]

BTW even *mere mortals* can get their elbows down while cornering. I have pics but can't access them from this pc. Oh how I do love that man

You mean like this ?

[Number One]

You mean like this ?

Similar but bike was lower and body wasn't hitched off side so much...just a wee fiddy bucket you see

[ckai]

Physics, skill, plain 'ol luck, and in this case divine intervention.

hahah there's even fork scraping!!! That's some hard core shit right there

The more you lean the less contact patch you have on the road. When you start rolling off the edge of your tyre, you need to start looking at body position.

I know someone that was rolling off the edge of his rear and was slipping around corners (on the track). He was still sitting dead on the bike. Changed so he was slightly off the seat and the bike could sit up more through the corners. Started going faster, with the same amount of throttle

But tyres play a part in lean angle. On some websites they have the degrees a tyre can do/made to do.

[lukemillar]

This much:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqKShV-iN5M&

Front wheel off the ground and he still didn't bin it (well, sort of!)

[HenryDorsetCase]

Pics or it didn't happen.

it was 1982, I didnt own a camera. I dont even have a pic of the bike