MotoGP random question

[cheesemethod]

It's actually for fending off Marco Simmoncelli.

[nodrog:Me]

I thought it was to poke it out of the fairing slipstream as a kind of airbrake?

A leg the diameter of a pipe cleaner isnt going to do fuckall as an airbrake.

[BurningPlastic]

It's actually for fending off Marco Simmoncelli.

Marco's a big boy - a leg won't get in his way... More likely to end up with both of you in the gravel if you tried that...

[mnkyboy]

Marco would whip out a chainsaw and lop it off if he thought he'd win. (ok maybe not)

Is it me or is moto2 better racing to watch than the gp boys? I think the bigger field make things more interesting. Pissed off that Iannone cant seem to get it together. He reminds me of marco.

[Crasherfromwayback]

You can't have seen last nights GP race.

[jonbuoy]

A leg the diameter of a pipe cleaner isnt going to do fuckall as an airbrake.

I´ve no idea but you would think every bit counts if your running at 99.9% of the bikes capabilities.

[Timmeh:P]

I am on the side that believes it makes no difference, and it's superstition. Good article about it here: http://motomatters.com/opinion/2009/..._leg_wave.html

"For several decades, American dirt trackers all looked behind the same way: They would leave their left hand on the bar and tuck their head under their left armpit to check on who was back there. Over time, all sorts of theories were produced, most of them having to do with improved aerodynamics from keeping your head down. But people kept asking why they did it, and eventually a pattern developed:

Chris Carr: "I saw Scotty Parker ride that way"...

...Scott Parker: "I learned it from Springer"...

...then Springer [Jay Springsteen] admitted: "Mert Lawill showed me that"...

...at which point Mert admitted "I got that from Bart Markel"

..eventually Black Bart said he learned it from Carroll Resweber, who said he learned it from another Texas Racer, who -when they finally tracked him down - revealed The Secret:

"Hell, boy, I was blind in my left eye... that was the only way I could see behind me!""

[Clivoris]

Hokey tokey sub-vocalisation?

[vifferman]

The riders who do it (apart from Rossi) largely do it because they wanted to make sure they weren't missing out on any possible advantage. (Kind of a moot point now that Rossi's not podiuming (is that a word?) much).
I read somewhere they (whoever "they" are) analysed the leg out vs. leg tucked neatly on the peg and found it made no difference, statistically. 'Cept maybe if it makes the rider more confident or whatever.

[nothingflash]

So it's not the KB wave?!

[BurningPlastic]

(Kind of a moot point now that Rossi's not podiuming (is that a word?) much).

Depends on how you look at it... Even though he has a bike that's average and still not set up to suit him, he's still moving through at least half the field every race. Once they get the bike sorted he'll likely be back on the podium.

[Crasherfromwayback]

I understand that you just don't like to give Rossi credit for anything, but it would be good to see something that actually supported that statement.

All the quotes I've seen say Rossi started it and I'd never seen anybody do it previously. Now many others do it, and some, like Sufoglu(sp?), do it with the left leg as well.

All the quotes you've seen are wrong as you'll see now. So you see, it's not at all that I won't give Rossi credit, it's just that I'll do it when he deserves it. This is Pat Hennan. Weapon.

So I realize you may've thought I was simply talking shit, but believe it or not, I don't tend to do that. I've just been round a while and seen a bit.

[Hitcher]

Shit there fast

There fast? No. They're (short for they are) fast.

[roogazza]

[QUOTE=Crasherfromwayback;1130112665] This is Pat Hennan. Weapon.

Thanks for the shot.Dale Wylie (#48) was a wonderful NZ talent and great to watch.

[Quasievil]

Imagine if they did that on a motard amongst sportsbikes there would be a right royal fuss about it, seen they are on all sportsbikes I guess that makes it ok !!

ok thats my shit stir outta the way.

As Jaden Hussen he does it all the time.

on a side note
I rode the R1 into town the other day and came up to a red light that was about to turn green,m the bike became a tad wobbly at the really low speed, I put my foot out to balance it and of course that worked, but it dawned on me that that would offer the same balancing if the bike was squirming around under hard braking.........................or would it ?