Knee down

[scracha]

I know it's sad, I know it doesn't make you go any faster but getting my knee down is one of my "must do's before I die". The fact that I've been riding 14 years and now have a trackbike doesn't make this pill easier to swallow.

Help. Someone gimmie the learn.

[HDTboy]

Go faster and lean further, getting your weight off the seat will help too. Follow Avalon on the RG150

Put some new tyres on and it'll happen in the first session you get back on the track (Dunlop GPR A10)

[scracha]

Go faster and lean further, getting your weight off the seat will help too. Follow Avalon on the RG150

Avalon: - I tried. She was too quick, even when I asked her to slow down a bit for me on the straight bits I only managed to sniff her exhaust for about 2 laps.

Weight of Seat - I think I am...feels like all my weight is on the outer peg. Unfortunately my outside knee seems to go out further than my inside one.

Lean Further - I'll get new rubber first, the CBR's front keeps tucking under. Serves me right for ignoring your tyre changing advice and being a "tight Scotch git". My bloody feet keep touching down too.

I think my technique is completely wrong. Too many years of riding dual purpose bikes. I should have grabbed one of them guru bikers on Sunday and put a yellow bib on.

[Devil]

Keep your spine parallel with the bike and when you move, slide your pelvis and shoulder sideways, keeping your body in line. Currently, by swinging your arse around the tank, it automatically tucks the inside leg down and towards the bike, not out and toward the ground.

...and yeah, heaps more lean. Good racey tyres help if you haven't got some already. The boost to your confidence being on good tyres can be all that you need...

[bugjuice]

go faster and all that, what hdtboy said, but get the confidence of leaning heaps and trusting your bike and abilities. And what I found, is just stop trying. I tried for 2 years, I was getting faster and faster, but for the life of me couldn't get my knee down. I so decided to forget about it and just concentrate more on the corners and my lines. Then all of a sudden, I was getting my knee down everywhere..

next time you're at the track, just talk to some of the faster guys more about it, and watch other people and their lines

[slinky]

go faster and all that, what hdtboy said, but get the confidence of leaning heaps and trusting your bike and abilities. And what I found, is just stop trying. I tried for 2 years, I was getting faster and faster, but for the life of me couldn't get my knee down. I so decided to forget about it and just concentrate more on the corners and my lines. Then all of a sudden, I was getting my knee down everywhere..

next time you're at the track, just talk to some of the faster guys more about it, and watch other people and their lines

i 2nd the part about not trying, and just concentrating on corners and lines - eventually your gona start taking them faster, and you will be getting lower.
i aint got mine down either [i gave up after 2 sessions - not 2 years ....kinda wasn't trying, but i was conscious about it...once i stopped thinking about it i had more fun anyway]
i kept scraping my toe sliders aswell..... gota get dem toes tucked in!

[boostin]

Also from what I have heard, a good suspension tune can go a long way to getting your knee closer to the ground.

Suspension setup may just tie in with higher speed, and confidence etc

[CM2005]

haha, i couldn't even folow avalon on my GP125 when she was on her XR100 at the buckets!! :0 get your ass off the seat? i've only done it 3 times. two i crashed and me knees touched the ground, the other time, i was right off, and almost off the edge of the tyre. your right, riding big dirt bikes doesn't help you get knee down!

[sAsLEX]

Latest superbike has bit in it about getting more lean......

[avgas]

Round the carpark is the way i learnt it.
But i cant do it nowdays as i wear big clodd-hopper steel caps which grind well before the bike is over.
Some day im gonna loose my little toe

[HDTboy]

For the record, it can be done on that bike. It's my old 400.
If you want to throw the lights and number plate back on it, we could go for a blast some time Steve

[MOTOXXX]

main thing is dont rush to get it down. Just keep trying slowly.

it will happen.

[Kittyhawk]

I could show you how its done, let me know and we can meet up as Im ment to be down your way catching up with Mental Trousers..

[cowpoos]

For the record, it can be done on that bike. It's my old 400.
If you want to throw the lights and number plate back on it, we could go for a blast some time Steve

infact...you lent that bike so hard mate...if I recall corectly...you got your knee down...followed by your shoulder..followed by your head...followed by the rest of your body!!! and it didn't take much skill at all!!! teheheheheheh!!!

[Morcs]

You do it like this: