How dodgy is scraping foot pegs on sports bike or sports tourer?

[Big Dog]

Totally unnecessary. Slight touchdown. Panic run wide. To chicken to turn hoes into dirt. Panics again. Throws bike away.
Shiny leathers and bike don't even look run in.

[awa355]

I agree. Almost looks like a deliberate attempt to crash.

[Big Dog]

I am told many in the US think an R1 is a learner bike. Do you reckon he learned anything?

[buggerit]

should buff out

[Drew]

The front washed out I think you'll find, then hooked back up. Footpeg touching down was a symptom, not a cause.

[benhall]

he needed the cornering bible

[nodrog:Me]

Double Tea Eff!!!???

he's just fucken scared of the noise.

[Drew]

he needed the cornering bible

I have no idea what that is. He needed to do nothing different, other than look where he wanted to go.

[benhall]

pictures are easier for some people

its a book/video

[Ocean1]

The front washed out I think you'll find, then hooked back up. Footpeg touching down was a symptom, not a cause.

Look at his rear indicators, there's some surface corrugations there, mid corner. Look at his right hand as he reacts to that: chops the throttle. Back end reacts by stepping out a tad and he immediately sits up and heads for the shrubbery.

[nodrog:Me]

pictures are easier for some people

its a book/video

i know he was going slow, but I don't think he had time to watch that

[Drew]

pictures are easier for some people

its a book/video

It's another fucken stupid reason people think they can ride fast, with no actual idea of what the bike is doing under them.

Save your money for rising insurance premiums. Putting faith in yourself after reading that, it's the safe money.

[Drew]

Look at his rear indicators, there's some surface corrugations there, mid corner. Look at his right hand as he reacts to that: chops the throttle. Back end reacts by stepping out a tad and he immediately sits up and heads for the shrubbery.

That's not what I see when I watch it. Except the indicators shacking, that's why I know the peg touching down isn't the cause.

[ellipsis]

...my first big off on my T250 back when I was a mere child still haunts me in a grimacing type of way...learning curves are sometimes steep and the subsequent reactions to riding following that off were tempered by the recollection of what happened...it took me some time to realise that it wasn't really the peg digging in and me foolishly listening to older riders advice, being, 'if you drop your bike , hang onto it'...I was just going far too fast and the guy on the Norton I was chasing around the Summit Road above Chch was actually really fast...the damage to me wasn't the initial bounce on my shoulder and head when the bike came down on top of me , it was the second bounce over the 2 or 3 meter bank and the other fucking peg ending up buried in my leg...I took to doing something that my mates said was being a pussy and a soft wank, and hung my leg out...40 years down the track and since Rossi started doing it, it seems to be de rigueur...

[nzspokes]

Well have a chat to Robert Taylor and get the right springs for it then. That way you can transfer them on to your new bike. Ive just fitted an Ohlins to the back and its transformed it. Also working on more power.......

Soooo, you going group 2 next ART day? Ive been told Im not allowed in 1 again.

Did you look at your springs? I would say thats one of the big reasons apart from riding style that makes you drag parts. My Hornet would drag all over the place with stock springs. I never did with the right ones in the bike. Have not on the Hawk either but again it had the right springs from the start.

Im sure the suspension tester for motorcycles weighs 50kg.