I just shat myself..

[bugjuice]

when I was going round a round-about about 3 or 4 times (how many Swanny..?? gotta stop doing that, I get sick after 2..) and my foot shot off the peg behind me! YEAH!!! I got so low my foot hit the ground!!!!! Next stop, the knee..
Main 2 reasons it's a big deal to me is
a) lefters are better for me than righters, so if I can do it going right I sure as hell can do it going left, I just have to get some sliders now.. When I saw shots of me going round a 'bout from the coro run, I seemed way off the lean, and I thought I wasn't too bad.. I must have got better..
and
b) I've always had that nagging 'trust' issue with tyres, how far can ya go before ya go? Well, a little further each day.. sods law tho, my back is almost shot, so I need a new one, so i'll be back a few squares, but least I know I can do it..

Also popped another wheelie today, startin to get *slightly* better, but really need a session messin to get it right..

I'm just feelin a bit of a buzz, so wanted to share.. plus I feel I haven't posted for a while, so just had to get it out of my system

k, over and done with..

[madboy]

i suffer from the same fear of "how far until the tyre lets go"... but last week managed to get the bike right over to the edge of the tyre - going both ways - a first for me.

Helped that I was on Wainui Hill, which if you know the area you'll know it's got a mega grippy super dooper road surface on it specially to stop all the useless twats who can't drive their cages from denting the median barrier while at the same time reducing the tyre life of the average wainui-ite by 50%... but it has the byproduct of being friggin awesomely grippy to play with on a bike!!

[Waylander]

Have had my bike slip a few times here cause I leaned it too far over and went off the tire tread. Luckily I wasn't goin to fast so I just stamped a foot down and with a bit of accelertion I mannaged to kick it right back up. Fun stuff when you realize you're goin farther than you think you are aye.

[bugjuice]

yeah, bloody good fun..

also forgot to mention, that before the ride, I 'chalked' the back tyre across. When I finished the ride to check, there wasn't anything there! I think I'm cured of my fear for now.. time to consentrate on other things..

[scooterboynz]

get some sparking knee sliders!

[bugjuice]

was thinking about it, yeah!

I've put this in the wrong forum, haven't I...?
bugger.

Edit - thanx whoever moved it..

[**R1**]

yeah, bloody good fun..

also forgot to mention, that before the ride, I 'chalked' the back tyre across. When I finished the ride to check, there wasn't anything there! I think I'm cured of my fear for now.. time to consentrate on other things..

Stoppies

[Wolf]

I have "trust issues" when leaning some bikes - I did not feel as confident leaning the LS400 down as I have felt with other bikes - the whole way the bike is set up and my riding posture on it, etc. Then again, it's a "pocket cruiser", not a race machine, it's designed to be ridden around at moderate speeds and cornered at same, not ridden balls out and scraping the knees on corners.

Scraped the pegs a number of times on my TS125 and the RD350 without a worry. Even then, I'm generally cautious on corners and a few of my friends reckon my tyres are not worn enough on the edges.

[bugjuice]

Stoppies

funny you should say that.. I have jabbed the brake on while I've been slowing down and got the back up.. Feel more confident to get the back up a foot than I do the front! all in good time I guess..

[Wolf]

funny you should say that.. I have jabbed the brake on while I've been slowing down and got the back up.. Feel more confident to get the back up a foot than I do the front! all in good time I guess..

Stoppies I need to learn - if only to learn the control it would teach me. I dropped the bike in my early years through grabbing the front brake too hard and for ages after that used the rear brake primarily for stopping as I feared the front-end diving when the front brake was applied - associated it with skidding. Took me ages to learn to use the front brake properly (the Zundapp helped with that, the front would rise owing to the trailing link suspension so I didn't get the "terrifying" front-end dive).

Wheelies, I've done - somethimes even deliberately

[scroter]

when I was going round a round-about about 3 or 4 times (how many Swanny..?? gotta stop doing that, I get sick after 2..) and my foot shot off the peg behind me! YEAH!!! I got so low my foot hit the ground!!!!! Next stop, the knee..
Main 2 reasons it's a big deal to me is
a) lefters are better for me than righters, so if I can do it going right I sure as hell can do it going left, I just have to get some sliders now.. When I saw shots of me going round a 'bout from the coro run, I seemed way off the lean, and I thought I wasn't too bad.. I must have got better..
and
b) I've always had that nagging 'trust' issue with tyres, how far can ya go before ya go? Well, a little further each day.. sods law tho, my back is almost shot, so I need a new one, so i'll be back a few squares, but least I know I can do it..

Also popped another wheelie today, startin to get *slightly* better, but really need a session messin to get it right..

I'm just feelin a bit of a buzz, so wanted to share.. plus I feel I haven't posted for a while, so just had to get it out of my system

k, over and done with..

put your toes up on the pegs then your boot wont deck out. dont worry about the tyres, it has to go past the edge to fall off it, you may only be getting it too the edge, if your really worried check how far your getting over on the front tyre. keep buzzin.

[**R1**]

funny you should say that.. I have jabbed the brake on while I've been slowing down and got the back up.. Feel more confident to get the back up a foot than I do the front! all in good time I guess..

HAHAHAHA im over wheelies at the mo(too easy) stoppies are the shit tho, fuk all people are any good at them, so its always good to bust out a stoppy while on a ride. When i first started doing em it was rolling up2 lights at about 35kph and grabbing a fist full of front brake and chucking myself towards the front(these stoppies look gay), now i can roll about 3-4 full car lengths on the front wheel, only problem is ya gota be doing around 100kph to do a good stoppy, which we all know is bad as far as the coppers are concerned....so have fun practice lots, and dont get caught....

[bugjuice]

put your toes up on the pegs then your boot wont deck out. dont worry about the tyres, it has to go past the edge to fall off it, you may only be getting it too the edge, if your really worried check how far your getting over on the front tyre. keep buzzin.

I did!! That's what got me the most! My foot was right back on the peg, and right in too - it couldn't be any closer into the bike, that's why it flew off when I got to the road.. The front still shows a couple of mm unused, but the back is all the way done now.. Battleaxe on both ends, just shopping around for another for the back..
Don't know if I could lean over any more.. the bars under the pegs would be the next thing to start scrapin..

[Motoracer]

HAHAHAHA im over wheelies at the mo(too easy) stoppies are the shit tho, fuk all people are any good at them, so its always good to bust out a stoppy while on a ride. When i first started doing em it was rolling up2 lights at about 35kph and grabbing a fist full of front brake and chucking myself towards the front(these stoppies look gay), now i can roll about 3-4 full car lengths on the front wheel, only problem is ya gota be doing around 100kph to do a good stoppy, which we all know is bad as far as the coppers are concerned....so have fun practice lots, and dont get caught....

Bro, do you ever go sideways while doing a stoppie (I mean when you just wana go straight but the back end swings around).

I used to do stoppies dead straight but ever since I started thinking about turning, I can't do any straight stoppies! The rear always has to swing around so I can't do any decent speed ones anymore! I am sure I am unintentionally pulling on one of the bars more than the other one while grabbing the brake but I can't get my head around it. At the moment I can do 1 good stoppie (approx 10+meters long) out of 10 go's. Fuckin anoying is what it is!

Got any tips for me?

[bugjuice]

HAHAHAHA im over wheelies at the mo(too easy) stoppies are the shit tho, fuk all people are any good at them, so its always good to bust out a stoppy while on a ride. When i first started doing em it was rolling up2 lights at about 35kph and grabbing a fist full of front brake and chucking myself towards the front(these stoppies look gay), now i can roll about 3-4 full car lengths on the front wheel, only problem is ya gota be doing around 100kph to do a good stoppy, which we all know is bad as far as the coppers are concerned....so have fun practice lots, and dont get caught....

dude.. that's huge! Way beyond me at the mo.. I've spent a lot of time getting to know the bike and my new limits (had it since sept last year, bike before was a CBR250RR), so now I'm getting to grips with the lot, it's time to be pushin boundries, but slowly and surely.. I'll stick with the ghay ones for the mo, but I'll get there in the end.
I just want a shit-box bike that I can trash and not worry about, then I'll get there faster.. I just don't want to trash this bike really..