Newbie question X 1

[alastabesta]

okay this is my first question that concerns me for quite some time and I still can't seem to figure out how you guys do it:

when you corner you lean ur bodyweight to one side, does the fancy knee touching the ground thingy and stick ur buttocks out. How on Earth do you keep it at a certain angle so you don't actually drag the bike to the ground? When I turn in on a normal bicycle I am scared of leaning eh... cos I basically pulled the pushbike onto the ground once when I was little and that wasn't a pretty sight

Was wondering if anyone would be kind enough as to enlighten me on this. Thank you all

[gav]

The faster you go, the easier it is. Its only in magazines where they scrape their knees at 20km/h......

[Mongoose]

when you corner you lean ur bodyweight to one side, does the fancy knee touching the ground thingy and stick ur buttocks out. How on Earth do you keep it at a certain angle so you don't actually drag the bike to the ground? When I turn in on a normal bicycle I am scared of leaning eh... cos I basically pulled the pushbike onto the ground once when I was little and that wasn't a pretty sight

Was wondering if anyone would be kind enough as to enlighten me on this. Thank you all

Well, my advice, for what its worth, is if you are that new dont even consider knee sliding. Get your confidence up on what you can do and worry about the fancy dancy stuff later

[avgas]

To put it basically its not the angle that is important, its the forces involved.
As to not go into statics and dynamics.
If you lean while the bike moves at a reasonable speed, it will not fall over but pull outwards (from the corner) - outwards force and downwards forces (with their opposing forces as well).
If you lean with no speed (or close too), only force is down.
And thats the leaning 101 basic lesson.
Have got more simple explanations, but i left my puppets at home.

[FROSTY:Me]

best way to describe it is that a bike is in essence 2 bloody big gyroscopes spinning at pretty high speedn (the wheels) Connected together by a frame.
The bike doesnt want to turn round corners --all it really wants to do is go in a straight line -by hanging off the side you are changing the center of gravity of these gyroscopes so the straight line is actually a corner.
Its a heck of a lot more complicated than that but thats your question answered.
Ohh and Ill second the advise mongoose gave -dont try to copy the hanger offerers till you have the basics covered.

[alastabesta]

lol I value my life still so yep, don't worry, I won't be doing that anytime soon. It just occured to me as something that I can't figure out why that's all but now that everything's clear, I shall go back and study stupid commercial law for summer school and ring up AA in the morning for riding lessons

cheers everyone!