Do you guys often manage to scrape your toes on the ground?

[Motu]

My head touches the ground in corners - one each side.

[LBD]

And new ends for my after market brake and gear levers on my raised rear sets are not cheap...

[ducatilover]

I've never seen a corner....

[Crisis management]

I stop for corners, get off the bike and push it around. If bikes were made to go round corners they would have a form of stability control to prevent them tipping over.

Honestly, some N00bs ask the silliest questions, where do they get these ideas , an RRRS course?

[Hitcher]

No problems there anymore. I have ground my toes away.

[Usarka]

The next trick is to get your stump down.

[gijoe1313]

So is that like po-tat-toes or po-tate-toes ... I guess it doesn't matter as long as you are enjoying yourself I guess, me ... I is so scared going around corners I prefer to let the bike do it for me!

The last time I touched my boot on the ground, it pinged up my toe guard and now its lost that little holding metal bit!

[MsKABC]

Do you guys often manage to scrape your toes on the ground?

Some of us girls even manage to do it....well, not this one coz I's a nana-rider, but I do know a lovely bitch who did it not so long ago

It's why sports boots have little plastic bits on the outside of the toes - I guess they're called toe-sliders?

[Finn]

That's why the hardest of hard riders have to go down the cruiser path with forward controls. Our boot bills are just too high otherwise.

Although I must say that sometimes it's just so sedate that my foot just goes to sleep and falls off the peg. Gives me one hell of a fright.

[MaxCannon]

Everytime around the track. Pegs, toes, boot sole, heels, gear lever, stand - but never my damn knees !

Who's up for helping me at Puke on Saturday - I think I'm not hanging off far enough

[HenryDorsetCase]

Some of us girls even manage to do it....well, not this one coz I's a nana-rider, but I do know a lovely bitch who did it not so long ago

It's why sports boots have little plastic bits on the outside of the toes - I guess they're called toe-sliders?

replaceable also.

I try not to by moving the ball of my feet onto the pegs, not the insteps

as for "knee down", move forward, bend arms, slide sideways, (you are looking around the corner) concentrate on smoothness and it will happen. Tust your tyres. It nearly goes without saying: do it on the track, not the road.

[short-circuit]

Nah not till I get my training wheels off

[retro asian]

Don't have any problems with toes, but I have to watch out that my dick is slung on the upward side. HAd a few nasty grazes until I got the hang of flicking it over for each corner.

Viagra/Cialis FTW

[pritch]

Viagra/Cialis FTW

He'd have to tie a white flag to the end of it though wouldn't he?

Back when in I lived in Wellington I used to find that I mostly dragged my boots when I was on my way home from the pub...

Nowadays I wouldn't be seen dead doing that sort of thing, just in case I was...

[vifferman]

I used to find that I mostly dragged my boots when I was on my way home from the pub...

Nowadays I wouldn't be seen dead doing that sort of thing, just in case I was...

That reminds me - yesterday I was down at the Viaduct and watched a guy on a Rocket3 (or is it III?) ride in. He dragged his left boot for 20 or so metres from the lights (just going slowly) and then turned sharply left to park, paddling furiously as he did so. Dunno iffen he was a noob, but he sure looked like one...

As for the "scraping your toes thing": I haven't done that in a very long time, apart from when I test-rode a crusier and then it was actually my heels. I always ride with the balls of my feet on the pegs in corners - apart from the extra clearance, it also gives you better control. I used to ride with them up all the time, but had to unlearn this good habit, as it's no good for my knees on long trips. I'm wonering now iffen I'll have to buy a crusier or DN-01 if they get worse, or trade the bike in on a mobility scroter.