Leg waving?

**tuska** · 14th July 2013, 17:28

just watched moto gp....go Rossi!!! but whats everyone doing the leg waving about slowing into corners about??

**blackdog** · 14th July 2013, 17:33

I can tell, you're new at this.

Should be an interesting thread until it gets merged with the other seven we've had discussing it.

**paturoa** · 14th July 2013, 17:42

I heard that he had just joined KB and was using the KB (secret) wave.

**unstuck** · 14th July 2013, 17:47

Well, I,d be shitting myself too, and you gotta get rid of it somehow.

**fridayflash** · 14th July 2013, 18:07

Originally Posted by unstuck

Well, I,d be shitting myself too, and you gotta get rid of it somehow.

is that like having a tenspeed inner tube up your trouser leg so you can take a piss in a crowded concert
without anyone knowing? hehe

**unstuck** · 14th July 2013, 18:09

Originally Posted by fridayflash

is that like having a tenspeed inner tube up your trouser leg so you can take a piss in a crowded concert
without anyone knowing? hehe

Thats the one.

**st00ji** · 14th July 2013, 18:09

Originally Posted by fridayflash

is that like having a tenspeed inner tube up your trouser leg so you can take a piss in a crowded concert
without anyone knowing? hehe

i think i have just worked out how to avoid struggling out of my one piece rain suit whenever i want to pee...

**blackdog** · 14th July 2013, 18:12

Inadvertently, you may have just offered the best piece of advice since KB's inception.

**st00ji** · 14th July 2013, 18:13

funnily enough i thought this thread was actually about waving with your leg.

i do it sometimes when passing other bikers who are pretending to be cars when im lanesplitting and dont want to release the throttle.

**AllanB** · 14th July 2013, 18:20

I waved my leg in a kicking motion to a car on my side of the road last weekend......

Lots of talk about the Rossi leg. From G-forces to air resistance helping the cornering.

Personally I think he started doing it to visually distract the riders behind him and now it is used as a blocking technique as it effectively blocks the rider behind stuffing their front wheel into that space.

But I may be wrong as you don't need to ride like that on my Honda .........

**Road kill** · 14th July 2013, 19:33

Some people I've seen started sticking a leg out once they'd crashed a couple of times.
Don't know fully what to make of that.

I've done it just in fucking about an found it steadies things up a bit on the edge but I'm to lazy to have taken it past that an I'm not riding a fuckin' dirt bike anyway.

No offence to dirt bikers.

**Drew** · 14th July 2013, 19:38

Rossi was asked about it a lot when he first started doing it. He said he didn't know why, but that the bike felt better.

The commentators currently think it's about loading the front tyre, but it doesn't wash with me.

**BMWST?** · 14th July 2013, 20:34

i think it just get a bit of weight inside and forward and has the "dont Think about coming up the inside casey" factor

**tuska** · 14th July 2013, 20:47

Originally Posted by Drew

Rossi was asked about it a lot when he first started doing it. He said he didn't know why, but that the bike felt better.

The commentators currently think it's about loading the front tyre, but it doesn't wash with me.

I agree with you!
surely waving ya leg would grab air and unstabilise the whole plot!

**george formby** · 14th July 2013, 20:50

Originally Posted by blackdog

Inadvertently, you may have just offered the best piece of advice since KB's inception.

Ha. I gleaned that nugget from a Spike Milligan book, Rommel. Gunner who? Or some such. That's what they did in the trenches in winter fighting in Italy. Tried it during Scottish winters when I wore a one piece undersuit & one piece over siut. Takes practice to get it just right....

Oh, yeah, on topic. Most of what I have herd indicates it makes him a bigger obstacle to pass.