'Chicken Strips' Are they important to you?

[Teezer]

From road racing and riding, I've noticed that the reality is it just makes no odds as to your level of perceived 'ability'. Much is down to tyre profile too, as well as how much you hang off. I'd hang off like a money (cos am a fat coont and would grind out all over the shop otherwise) and would have big strips. My mate was a skinny beggar and wouldn't hang off at all. We were always within 1sec of each other, and he'd often ride to the edge.

Any fool who judges me on my chicken is welcome to his opinion as I simply won't give a shit.

I prefer to let my riding do the talking, and when the posing wankers catch up 10 minutes later with their sliders untouched and their bike hardly up to temperature, I'll be into my 2nd bacon sammie and about to head off.

[BAD DAD]

Chicken strips on my bike not as important as Stripping chicks.

[manwithav8]

I pay for a certain amount of tyre, therefore I like to use that certain amount of tyre. Bugger paying for a new tyre when your last one still has 2 inches of good rubber still left on it... This isn't a measure of my riding abilities, I just like to get the maximum out of what I purchase.

If you don't plan on using the full width of what you pay for, request tyres with only 2/3 of tread on them, you may get them cheaper lol

[FzerozeroT]

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 drives cars for a crust now

[Fatjim]

Same guy drives cars for a crust now

Thats from the guy who reckons you don't need to countersteer.

[scumdog]

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

Too true, only insecure egotists give a fat-rats arse about chicken strips.

[FzerozeroT]

Thats from the guy who reckons you don't need to countersteer.

I'll have to plead ignorance to that one?

EDIT: "because of counter-steering,the headlight would acually go the opposite way from the direction you are going to travel, factor that in with leaning and you're pretty much screwed."
I remember saying that back in '04

[TOTO]

As a tool to see how you are usin your tyre - usefull.


As a way to show off and judge people - wankage.


p.S. and use the search function next time you want to start a thread.

[98tls]

Too true, only insecure egotists give a fat-rats arse about chicken strips.

I remember feeling a bit "insecure" when in an attempt to lose mine i encountered the trumpet rider travelling faster than a trumpet rider had a right to on that westcoast sweeper.

[scumdog]

I remember feeling a bit "insecure" when in an attempt to lose mine i encountered the trumpet rider travelling faster than a trumpet rider had a right to on that westcoast sweeper.

I can vouch for that.

Luckily I had no intentions of wearing off any more of my chicken strips that day...

[CHOPPA]

I'm struggling with the logic in this one.

Just because you can lean your bike over dont mean your a good rider, just means you can lean your bike over.....

[martybabe]

Oh, that's what chicken strips are, well I've just put a new rear tyre on my baby and it ain't scrubbed in yet, so my chicken licken gay strips are about 6 inches wide at the mo.

And people are judging my riding ability on this are they, well well, shan't get any sleep tonight worrying about that then.

[=cJ=]

Chicken strips?

Don't care, hassle me about mine and I'll more than likely tell you to piss off.

[jrandom]

My chicken strips came with honey mustard sauce.

Om nom nom nom!

Seriously, though, I mean, we go on about how chicken strips are meaningless, but who among us would feel totally comfortable turning up to any kind of gathering of motorcyclists with silicon visible on the rear tyre?

Anyone?

Hellooooo...

Thought not.

No, DangerousBastard, you can't answer if you know you'd never get invited to any kind of gathering in the first place.

[CB ARGH]

Oh FFS how about you use the search function and add your "research question" to the end of the voluminous number of postings already made on the subject?

You don't think this hasn't come up before in over 1,670,000 posts?

Keep your hair on. I thought he was talking about hamburgers or somethin.