'Chicken Strips' Are they important to you?

[Katman]

My two cents worth.

If you're over onto the edge of your tyres, what's left in reserve?

[boomer]

My two cents worth.

If you're over onto the edge of your tyres, what's left in reserve?

I'm suprised you're brave enough to get out of bed in the morning. The worlds a scary place aint it..??!


Anyone with chicken strips(front or back) is just commuting.

[boomer]

As I stated in the thread that started it all.

Chicken Strips are entirely, utterly meaningless.
All they indicate is how a bike has been ridden 'recently'.
They tell you nothing of the rider or his capability.

Come over and even mention them in front of the professional riders at KR and you will be laughed at.

I get laughed at all the time, Just cos they work for a cycle magazine doesn't mean they are good riders bro...

and as for 'recently'.. you can tell if the edge has been used in its lifetime.. not just since teh last downpour or wash.

[Katman]

I'm suprised you're brave enough to get out of bed in the morning. The worlds a scary place aint it..??!


Anyone with chicken strips(front or back) is just commuting.

You never answered the question boomer.

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

There are very few roads and corners in NZ that at 100kph that would take you to the limit of the tyres on most bikes anyway...


I agree with Katman on this if you are always on the edge... you have nothing in reserve for that oh fuck momnet... I have a couple of mm of chicken strips but I know I can go that little bit more when I need to when I make that miss alignment

I have taken it to the limit on the past but usually only because I have needed to when I have cooked the corner

[Blossom]

I have massive chicken strips.
REALLY MASSIVE.

I would be hideously embarrassed to show up at a ride and have everyone see them... so I will tell you all now then hopefully noone will laugh at me.
But I can bring cookies so hopefully I would still have some friends.

What I am curious about is this.. how many of you actually lost your chicken strips (or down to the limit for your bike) while still on your learners or whilst still learning?

[Maki]

I have huge chicken strips because I tend to keep the bike fairly upright and lean with my body.

[OutForADuck]

Kiwi Graham your a stirring bastard (111) posts about the joy/horror of riding off the edge of your tyres

I have visions of those "L" Platers sliding down the road whilst looking for the edge and a little street kudos

I don't even get my sliders down on the road but know I am not slow through the twisties... just have lean, power and sometimes a little skill in reserve... because its the road!!!

Having had three emergency stops last week (Car U-turn after blind corner, car pulling out of side road infront of turning car hiding him and idiot who was racing and totally lost it through corner stuffing up my safe exit - also car) I'm sort of glad I tend to leave a little in reserve

and experience shows virtually no rider leaves chicken strips after a couple of sessions on the track!!! Be they fastest or slowest on the track

[boomer]

You never answered the question boomer.

Which Question is that katman..?! if its do i judge a persons riding ability by his strips.. then yes i must do. As i said ' if you have strips.. you're just commuting'.


I agree it raises the stakes but all this 'there are no roads in NZ that allow you to get lent over', 'i lean my body rather than my bike' is just excuse making. front up and say you don't ride fast on the road.

And you still have a way to go once you reach the edge of your tyre.. you still have room to go of the edge ( with most tyre profiles )

is it big or clever...??! who knows.

[slofox]

The very name "chicken strips" smacks of brainless male machismo - " unless you are riding at risk you are not a true blue tough guy....". Sounds like boy racer thinking to me....What is the point of that? Does it promote safe riding? Are we here to promote that or to promote risk taking? Every time someone bins there are many messages of sympathy.....a little less of this bravado might mean less necessity to express sympathy....think about it........

[boomer]

The very name "chicken strips" smacks of brainless male machismo - " unless you are riding at risk you are not a true blue tough guy....". Sounds like boy racer thinking to me....What is the point of that? Does it promote safe riding? Are we here to promote that or to promote risk taking? Every time someone bins there are many messages of sympathy.....a little less of this bravado might mean less necessity to express sympathy....think about it........

i missed teh bit when i signed up that said.. "you're here(on kb i presume) to promote safe riding..!" ahahah

lets look at this for a moment, the more experience you have teh better, more capable rider you become.. right? like so many things in life..?! so can you not realise that some people can ride at a greater speed than you and still be safer? Now im not saying im a) fast or b) safe.. BUT just because you cant ride at that speed doesnt mean others cant.

Now with regards to chicken strips, if i see 'em.. i know the bike hasn't been 'ridden' on the road.. its been commuted on.

[The Stranger:Me]

I have huge chicken strips because I tend to keep the bike fairly upright and lean with my body.

Good try, but you will need a better excuse than that. We'll accept that you have chicken strips because you scrape hard bits first, other than that - well sooner or later you are just going to have to face the truth.
Deal with it.

[firefighter]

Now with regards to chicken strips, if i see 'em.. i know the bike hasn't been 'ridden' on the road.. its been commuted on.

I had a ZZR250, which under me hated it's life, (I was too fat for the poor wee thing!) anyway I had chicken strips on it, yet I mostly rode it along S16, up through to Wellsford, to Whangarei (pretty much every set of shifts off), and I would do this often, and I would get the bike over enough to scrape my boots and pegs up quite nicely, and wasn't keen to go much further over than that as I like life, so what your saying is that is just commuting, because the strips stayed on the sides of the tyre? Sounds pretty immature to me mate.

[PirateJafa]

Anyone with chicken strips(front or back) is just commuting.

Not necessarily. On a number of bikes (like my own) it is actually impossible to remove the chicken strips entirely without removing the exhausts and probably the peg mounts first.

So unless I get out with a sander or bin epically, there is no way in hell those "chicken" strips will go.

Just depends on the curvature of the tyres - since a good number of people don't run stock sizes of tyres, their "strips" will be correspondingly easier or harder to remove.

And of course, you can get rid of your strips in a carpark at 20km/h if you really want.

[firefighter]

Not necessarily. On a number of bikes (like my own) it is actually impossible to remove the chicken strips entirely without removing the exhausts and probably the peg mounts first.

the point I was trying to make