Proper knee-down or a pussy one?

[Toaster]

I'll have to give it a crack on the Boulevard then....

[The_Dover]

I'll have to give it a crack on the Boulevard then....

i dont think you'll earn much, even if you get both knees down

[MazTLR]

mynameis, yes old photo about 1979 my road bike Suzuki GS750 racing in production only had about 70hp on road tyres, which were crap compaired to todays sticky types, the bigger bikes had about 30hp more. But we had more trouble with the Yamaha's LC250, LC350 and RD400's overtaking us around the bends 2 or 3 at a time, then we would get them back down the straights, till the next bend all good fun, lots of swearing under the helmet.

[nadroj]

I wondered what my style was, so looking back at my old racing photo's found this one, Brands Hatch, paddock hill bend, first lap, I'm number 5. Notice know one has there knee down, and all the different styles, no knee sliders and armour padding then.

You the one holding the tail of the field up?

[MazTLR]

No not me, the races had 40 bikes on the grid plus 8 reserves to replace those who did not turn up, all races were off your bike and a push start, not nice pushing up hill if your bike was hard to start, but it made for good racing as the fast bikes might be at back. They should have kept it that way now instead of siting on the bike with engine running

[Kittyhawk]

Maybe try getting your knee down on a bucket racer, I tried one of those and got my knee down quite confidently. Even tho it was a small bike of 125cc or so, it was still a buzz.

That really brought up my confidence and now on my 600 I know a bit more about how far to lean her down and not feel so scared.

It's just practise where you feel comfortable, weather it be just leaning over, or sliding off and leaving half ya arse on the seat.

I find when I corner leaning off the bike is alot better. Perhaps try on a stretch of twisty road, and go back and fourth till you feel your confidence grow.

Have to agree with Death inc on this one.