Where the plastic meets the road

[The Singing Chef]

Fuck em. If you are in control and aware of what is happening around you then good on you.

Cheers bro

[TOTO]

Good on you for trying new things. Motorcycling is all about having fun and you are obviously doing that.

Like the others said, save it for the track or the car park. Doing shit like that on the road has ended up in disaster in the past even if the individuals taught that they had taken the variables out of the equation.

[DrunkenMistake]

Yea mines a whore to corner, friends have ridden it and been surprised, i used to get my pegs scraping alot, so adjusted my riding position.

Get yourself some boots with toe sliders,
and try keep the little steal pins on the bottom of your pegs on, they act like a slider.

[MadDuck]

.... tried it out and low and behold i got my knee down, and again, and again.

Way to go. I do that every time I head up to Warkworth too.

[The Singing Chef]

Way to go. I do that every time I head up to Warkworth too.

HAHAHAHA that would be quite a stretch!!!!

[The Singing Chef]

Get yourself some boots with toe sliders,
and try keep the little steal pins on the bottom of your pegs on, they act like a slider.

Yea wouldn't mind some new boots, haven't done it since i adjusted my cornering position, and my pegs are all rubber...owell, i haven't done that for a while either

[The Singing Chef]

just out of curiosity, did anyone pick up the Meatloaf reference, or am i the only fan?

[Grantman_]

Was on my ride out to Warkworth today, whilst going through the really tight and smooth corners with the really nice seal on them i remembered what a fellow KBer had told me about getting your knee down, tried it out and low and behold i got my knee down, and again, and again.

Shit that was fun!

Mate I hear you. Talk about the tripling the riding addiction. Once you start you can't stop. You've just taken a jump forward in your cornering ability and you feel it. Nothing wrong with getting your knee down on the open road if the turns are tight and the conditions right. I've scraped my way through 2 sets of sliders canyon riding the Mangamukas over the last few months since I first started. Save the fun for an annual track day 100s of k's away? Doubt it. I started riding this year to get some fun outside work and knee down = big fun. In fact, no knee down has started to = boresville.

Take it incrementally, and make sure there's a good gap of cars in front if you're in blind canyons.

Timmmaaay stop that fun, stopit! Where's my kidgloves?

[EJK]

Tag: Katman Bait

[The Singing Chef]

Tag: Katman Bait

Oh no the almighty KATMAN, he rides through the black of the night, looking out for unsuspecting prey, coming out of the shadows he rolls on up to preach his godly word.

[nosebleed]

Fixed that for you.

And lets hope that it's kept at a may be then, although, there was no speeding or excessive speed for the corners, had a clear path in front of me and behind me with warm tires. Was simply trying a new cornering technique which keeps more of the tire on the road.

The bigger the contact patch, the more grip i have.

Fixed that for you.

[tigertim20]

Get yourself to a race track. Only twats ride like that on the road.

youtube knee down vids, youll find lots of vids of poeple getting a knee down on 250s in big empty car parks, at a very very low speed. knee down doesnt necessarily require a great deal of pace.

[ellipsis]

Oh no the almighty KATMAN, he rides through the black of the night, looking out for unsuspecting prey, coming out of the shadows he rolls on up to preach his godly word.

...does he?..

[The Singing Chef]

Fixed that for you.

........

[Str8 Jacket]

youtube knee down vids, youll find lots of vids of poeple getting a knee down on 250s in big empty car parks, at a very very low speed. knee down doesnt necessarily require a great deal of pace.

Speed doesn't kill - the impact does. Speed aint my problem - treating the road like you're the only one on it is.

I broke my tailbone racing and I was going slower than I would have been riding the same (type) of bike to work. When things go wrong at any speed it can hurt or eesult in death! I know I have been to waaay to many funerals in my lifetime.