'Chicken Strips' Are they important to you?

[rainman]

What is this "leaning while cornering" you guys keep talking about?

I just steer with my feet...

[flame]

Egg heads that judge a rider by his duck strips is just gay. Its all about the wheelies don't ya know

[dipshit]

Chicken strips matter an awful lot to the posers and insecure people out there. In fact their motorcycling revolves around them.

Yet interestingly have a look at what someone who can actually ride very fast says about it...

"The bike can't do everything for you and i'm showing them on the tyre where the grip is. So you need to be able to move, you need to be able to get off the bike to get where the grip is so you can open the throttle. All my tyres have a chicken strip as you don't want to be working on the edge of the tyre, you want to be on the meaty bit." ... Aaron Slight.

[CookMySock]

I use my strips and other tyre wear patterns to give me feedback on my riding. For a while, I felt as if I could corner to the left better than I could to the right. Looking at my tyre patterns this is not so. I corner identically both ways.

I don't care if more experienced riders look down their nose at my strips, not that they ever have IRL, except on this forum, where many people are highly derogatory about almost any subject they can muster.

I had about 1cm of strip left on the rear 160/60/17 before it wore out. I'm quite proud of that actually, considering its a 650 and I'm on my learners (exemption) and I've never had any sort of incident on it. What more is a newbie expected to be capable of ?

Yes, I think they are important to me. They are not relevant to anyone else.

DB

[98tls]

Chicken strips matter an awful lot to the posers and insecure people out there. In fact their motorcycling revolves around them.

Yet interestingly have a look at what someone who can actually ride very fast says about it...

"The bike can't do everything for you and i'm showing them on the tyre where the grip is. So you need to be able to move, you need to be able to get off the bike to get where the grip is so you can open the throttle. All my tyres have a chicken strip as you don't want to be working on the edge of the tyre, you want to be on the meaty bit." ... Aaron Slight.

Same guy said "go round every corner as though you dont know whats around it".

[Kiwi Graham:Me]

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Ah well must mean i need a good

I'm sure that can be arranged dude, give it a couple of hours and get youself down to K'road

[CookMySock]

"The bike can't do everything for you and i'm showing them on the tyre where the grip is. So you need to be able to move, you need to be able to get off the bike to get where the grip is so you can open the throttle. All my tyres have a chicken strip as you don't want to be working on the edge of the tyre, you want to be on the meaty bit." ... Aaron Slight.

Is this online somewhere ? Google cant find it for me.

He is choosing what part of the tyre he has on the ground, by moving his weight off and conserving his angle of lean ?

Thats very interesting. Many thanks.
Steve

[Wingnut]

I quite like fried chicken.

[ital916]

only important when served with a large potato and gravy.

[Kiwi Graham:Me]

Is this online somewhere ? Google cant find it for me.

He is choosing what part of the tyre he has on the ground, by moving his weight off and conserving his angle of lean ?

Thats very interesting. Many thanks.
Steve

Prob in his book, this guy is a legend. You ride bikes at his level and your able to judge what part of the tyre is in contact with the surface and getting hotter than another! Simply put if you move the centre of gravity inside and down ie, your weight. you can corner quicker for less lean angle resulting in more of the 'meat' of the tyre on the ground. He's wasted driving cages

[dipshit]

Is this online somewhere ? Google cant find it for me.

It's in the June Bike Rider magazine.

He is choosing what part of the tyre he has on the ground, by moving his weight off and conserving his angle of lean ?

More importantly he is sacrificing apex speed in order to be more upright so he can get on the gass sooner and harder... thus be quicker around a track than most bunnies.

[speights_bud]

Doesn't worry me, The front on the rg still has strips, the rear not so much, just the tyre choice and riding style i guess, i'd rather have that extra footprint on the track for the front.

As for the 125, that still has chicken strips, even though i've had the engine casings grinding mid corner

[Jerry74]

it don't really matter to me as long as I don't come off

[Swoop]

A good dose of asian bird flu, will get rid of them for you.

[Fatjim]

Egg heads that judge a rider by his duck strips is just gay.

Thats cause yours are about an inch wide at the moment chook, and don't deny it, I checked the other night