Re: Skids
 

The Force eh, are you some kind of jedi.;)
If the bike is not leant over enough it will highside, if it's leant over too much it'll lowside.

Re: Skids
 

I've been doing this way too much recently. Sliding up to traffic lights, sliding into my parking space at work this morning, sliding to try and work out what the weird vibration in the bike is under very hard braking.

Re: Skids
 

That'll be the flat spots on your rear tyre then!! ;-)

Re: Skids
 

It was happening more with the old tyre which I neglected to slide about on. I'd best stop doing that though :(

Re: Skids
 

I used to slide mine around loads, not while just riding and cornering but while stopping etc. And once on the way out the outside of a left hander :rolleyes: Good fun though.

Re: Skids
 

You see I have never been into doughnuts/burnouts ... just seems a waste of rubber ... I guess if you are about to replace a tyre it makes no odds mind!! :)

But if it goes POP, you risk damaging the rim :(

As for the highside thing, its always gonna be a risk, but a highside is only caused when the suspension suddenly 'unloads' ... as long as you don't come to a sudden halt and carve a progressively tightening curve, this shouldn't be a high risk .. or at least it mitigates it slightly ...