Proper knee-down or a pussy one?

[Wenier]

Gotta agree with OAB, i dont tend to always lean off and i can go jus as fast as most guys.

Have to experiment bit more, jeans dont help thou.

[The_Dover]

i'll take what I can get.

boomer get's both knees down.









































when he's sucking my cock.

[McJim]

Knee down just seems to be one of those rites of passage for motorcyclists. Watching the vid though it's good to hear reference to getting as much mass as close to the point of pivot - a bit like figure skaters and their pirrouettes (sp?) and he mentions Jamie Witham - between him and Niall Mackenzie that's what got me into bikes in the first place.

I haven't even got knee sliders - won't buy them until the knee gets close to the deck - looks a bit poofy wearing sliders with no scrapes....

[Pumba]

looks a bit poofy wearing sliders with no scrapes....

Thats why the ones that came on my pants are sitting in the cupboard. Might have to get them out for the next trackday tho

[oldguy]

This is how to put your knee down, looks like he needs sliders for his elbows soon

[mynameis]

i'll take what I can get.

boomer get's both knees down.



when he's sucking my cock.

Lol hahaha I'll give you 10/10 for being a funny bastard and boomer, well he can have whatever he fancies!

mynameis

[quickbuck]

There have been a few times when I had my knee down for a purpose other than a pose. That was at Shirrifs road Kart track on my bucket.
Trick was to put knee close to the deck, and then save what ever wheel let go!
Worked well (as I had plastic road tyres on the bucket), until it started to rain. Then I binned .

I have got my knee down on my old 400 many times, and very close on my 600, but don't hang off unnaturally just to do it. This tends to upset the corner way too much!
Great feeling, but makes you no faster.

[Big Dog]

Appalling video.
The guy seems to know about how to get knee down but now why and does not seem to have any idea about how to teach.
He does have some good points but he is not a very organised tutor for someone who knows he is about to be filmed.
I have a much better (read that proffesional) DVD I got from Superbike Magazine.

Funnily enough the racers interviewed reckon that hanging off the side to get your knee down should be a baby step to knee down.

[Big Dog]

I have got my knee down on my old 400 many times, and very close on my 600, but don't hang off unnaturally just to do it. This tends to upset the corner way too much!
Great feeling, but makes you no faster.

Definately. By all means hang off the bike if thats your thrill but if things go west it is bloody hard to do anything about it.
Watch the motogp and they all hang off but they almost all keep at least on cheek firmly planted.

Big ups to anyone who can genuinely hang off that can do so stably. I pretty much only do this when I can see a slick in the rain surface and want to keep the bike upright because of the limited choices should you need to change line.

[Monkeyboy]

No one knows just who Ghost Rider is, but despite varied reports of his death it would appear to be unfounded. The guy with whom most confuse GR's death with was a guy called the black prince or something, died doing the Paris ring.

I read an interview with Ghostrider in Performance Bikes a few months ago. He said the Police in Sweeden know who he is but since they can't prove it's actualy him doing the stunts at the time they don't harrass him. Obviously when they eventually scrape him off the road they will know won't they? I borrowed Ghostrider 4 off a mate and it's hillarious, he paints his Gixer to look like a Police bike complete with blue flashing lights and siren and chases people it's obviously all set up but quite funny anyway. He also rides between two trucks on a motorway at something like 200 km/h, but going the wrong way, silly but impressive, worth a look.

[Indiana_Jones]

well pussy or not, he's done better then me lol.

-Indy

[boomer]

Lol hahaha I'll give you 10/10 for being a funny bastard and boomer, well he can have whatever he fancies!

mynameis

I don't fancy Dover.

getting your arse of the seat actually helps turn the bike in quicker.. try it; don't shove ya knee out, lean over the bike, drop ya shoulder, look through where you want to go and nudge ya bum over(well before teh turn, so you don't upset teh bike inturn).. it helps navigate corners quicker.

I found at Taupo that havin ya knee out helps with gauging lean angle, a little further teh toe goes down a little further teh bike goes down...

Now Enigma on the other hand is just a lanky saffy who hasn't a clue where to put his legs.

ps.. i look fukin good doing it too, i don't know who the other fag is tho


lookin good

[MazTLR]

How about this for a knee down.

[jade]

He also rides between two trucks on a motorway at something like 200 km/h, but going the wrong way, silly but impressive, worth a look.

when he does that he passes through them at 284... its pretty loose..
when hes going the same direction as them he does the 200km pass...
a little over. ...on the back wheel

as for knee down ive got my first set of sliders so hell yea I want to get it down... I liked the vid

[quickbuck]

Watch the motogp and they all hang off but they almost all keep at least on cheek firmly planted.

Keeping your cheek firmly planted is fine on a GP bike (or such like). What everybody (well, not quite, but some here) is forgetting is that:
1) MotoGP bikes have radically different tyres to your road bike.
2) The rear sets put the pegs well out of touch with the ground.
3) The rear sets also put your knee in a very different position on a race bike.
4) There are no hero blobs on the pegs of a race bike.

This is why you need to hang off on a road bike (even if it is slightly).

Near the end of a training session at Manfeild I was going through the corner formally known as Coke (Now Toyota).
I was getting tired, and couldn't be bothered getting off the seat as much as I had been. Result was my peg was firmly on the deck, and much loss of alloy was suffered. Could have I put my knee on the deck then? Yell, no. I was wearing my Cordula pants (no sliders). If I was wearing leathers? Probably.

I still maintain though, it is very silly to put your knee on the deck on the public road.
I did it once, and an undulation on the inside of a corner just about tore my leg off!