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kwak zzr 10-06-07 07:32 PM

To all you knee down experts
 
ok so the roads are warm so are my tyres, been out today on a 50mile run on some cracking islands and big right and left sweepers, thing my tyres are all worn all the way to the edge and people i ride with tell me my sv1000s is over all the way (maybe too far over?) anyway one particular right hander was superb about 60mph hanging off the sv, i dont quite know how to describe this but it just felt right? stable, knee was out but still no scrape? :(
i was looking at the road ahead from underneath my right hand mirror? is that right? any tips to get me to just drop it on the deck?

ivantate 10-06-07 07:35 PM

Re: To all you knee down experts
 
I guess if you still have the bolts screwed into the bottom of your pegs that would be a good indicator as to how much further you can go.

Hope you didnt go out after watching the GP today as that would be a sure way to bending it.

kwak zzr 10-06-07 07:48 PM

Re: To all you knee down experts
 
:help:

keithd 10-06-07 08:06 PM

Re: To all you knee down experts
 
just my opinion this...

but it sounds liked you are cranked right over, what does it matter that your knee doesn't touch down? worry too much about what your knee is doing and you may forget to do the basics and end up doing something silly

fizzwheel 10-06-07 08:10 PM

Re: To all you knee down experts
 
I wander if you're doing wrong what I've been doing wrong.

Are you pointing your knee out or are you pointing it at the ground ?

You sound like your doing everything right though, but I can't do it, so I'm not the best person to ask really.

Rich 10-06-07 08:23 PM

Re: To all you knee down experts
 
I duno how to do it but reading this you should hang off like a monkey, one buttock cheek left on the seat is best :lol:

http://www.champ.org.uk/bikes/kneedown.htm

weazelz 10-06-07 08:40 PM

Re: To all you knee down experts
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by kwak zzr (Post 1208796)
i was looking at the road ahead from underneath my right hand mirror? is that right? any tips to get me to just drop it on the deck?

that sounds like an excellent way to drop it - the bike - on the deck. look where you're going!!

sounds like you're doing everything else right. now go *faster* :-D

Flamin_Squirrel 10-06-07 08:45 PM

Re: To all you knee down experts
 
Hang off the bike more.

Tim in Belgium 10-06-07 08:47 PM

Re: To all you knee down experts
 
And as Weasel (or however he spells it) says, go faster.


Or do a track day.

Alpinestarhero 10-06-07 09:02 PM

Re: To all you knee down experts
 
1) get longer legs. Could be a painfull and expensive option.

2) use longer kneesliders

:D :D

Matt


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