My bike is drifting!

[racefactory]

I experienced exactly this just the other day... at ''my roundabout'' ... nice sunny day, no cars at all come to this little off-cambered roundabout. Cranked it fully over pegs folding up 45 degrees, leaned over little more, little more and then there... back end just starts weaving and sliding on it's line... if i applied gas it would have just stepped straight out sideways. The difference is you must be having to ride the little bikes really hard to do it... (ground off a significant amount of peg that day) but these little bikes definately seem able to 'drift' as you put it.

This is how hard you need to go to 'drift' the 250's... as you can see i ground away and lost my peg feelers and also the end of the peg itself (note the now slanted peg ends) at this roundabout before it got to that point in traction.. I think it's safe to say that you need not worry about accidentally applying 'drifting' power in normal cicumstances.

before anyone starts pondering why on earth i'd do such a thing... I got a rough fairing set for free, especially for this purpose (car park practice) so i'm not really worried in this respect

[sugilite:Me]

Had you thought about slowing down to avoid drifting in the 1st place?
It's like Russian roulette drifting road bikes, esp smaller ones. yeah sure, you can get away with it some of the time, but the inevitable high side is going to hurt you and your wallet.

Get a dirt bike, take it out on the trails and drift to your hearts content

[wbks]

yeah this trade me dude makes sense

Listen here son, just pop the clutch and keep her pinned when ever you feel it about to slide. Don't forget to sit up at the same time. Muchas gracias gringos

[normajeane]

Whoa sounds like fun and boy I would like to see your eyes when it happened just like the eyes of the guys at Wyndham when going through the chicane and ending up in the haybales or barricades. You could smell it.... Anyway don't try this again or your mum will kick your arse

[normajeane]

Ok well the boss is back so I better back off and shuffle off (but i have'nt finished the wine) but i hope you all ride safely and I will continue to ride like a nana on my sporty

[Rodney007]

I experienced exactly this just the other day... at ''my roundabout'' ... nice sunny day, no cars at all come to this little off-cambered roundabout. Cranked it fully over pegs folding up 45 degrees, leaned over little more, little more and then there... back end just starts weaving and sliding on it's line... if i applied gas it would have just stepped straight out sideways. The difference is you must be having to ride the little bikes really hard to do it... (ground off a significant amount of peg that day) but these little bikes definately seem able to 'drift' as you put it.

This is how hard you need to go to 'drift' the 250's... as you can see i ground away and lost my peg feelers and also the end of the peg itself at this roundabout before it got to that point in traction.. I think it's safe to think that you need not worry about accidentally applying 'drifting' power in normal cicumstances.

before anyone starts pondering why on earth i'd do such a thing... I got a rough fairing set for free, especially for this purpose (car park practice) so i'm not really worried in this respect

how does your rear become wavey?

[koba]

I got an old tyre free for my GSX250.
My mate gave it to me coz he put good ones on when he got his.
It was a 4+ year old IRC durotour, the OEM tyre.
I had a much stickier IRC RX01 on the front.
It would slide the rear off roundabouts, even without being anywhere near pegscraping lean but you had to be brutal on the throttle.
They weren't huge slides but it was letting go.

Risk of hurting oneself is quite high pissing about on the road tho.
MB 100 with bald tyres is much more fun and safer in a flat paddock.

[racefactory]

how does your rear become wavey?

I don't know how else to describe it really... it just starts weaving about outwards of the turn, as if your front tyre is holding a steady line and the rear wheel is sliding out and back to that line. I'm guessing past there it steps out...

[wbks]

Did you get those pegs like that from the gymkhana thing?

[racefactory]

Did you get those pegs like that from the gymkhana thing?

Not really. I got them like that after going round a roundabout numerous times, gunning it obviously.

As for gymkhana, it is just far too 'flicky' for me to be able to concentrate on getting a smooth and high corner speeds/lean angles.. its more about putting the bike where you want it rather than just gunning it on a set radius curve where you can just lean until you start scraping all kinds of shit to kingdom come.

[wbks]

Your poor viffer!