Knee down. (YET again).

ok so who has tried it??? gone to a good round about and kept going round to try and get the knee down?

whats the fasination?

am i missing out by not doing it?

what everyones general thoughts on this, this has come together because i was reading another thread on MCN.

chompy

[dizzyblonde]

your not missing owt matey.....better not bothering, more chance o staying right way up

I can't see the fascination TBH

i was arguing with a guy on mcn because he was on about how it will make him faster and how its safer to hang of and touch knee down. and he is on a 125 ooooo i did make me laugh, then he postd a video of him riding, that made me laugh more, he was all over the place taking he wrong lines, wrong possitions, nearly got taking off 3 time easily avoidable.

thats why i thought about this, made me chuckle

[yorkie_chris]

It can make you quicker as it tells you how much ground clearance is remaining, also keeps a bit of a bigger contact patch.

95% of time it is for bragging rites down the pub though. The quickest riders I know don't bother with KD at all.

i think most of the relies he had were not for the road, which its definatly not. he has even been offered to have half a track day payd fr him so he would stop talking about it Lol.

[yorkie_chris]

That is MCN and sadly a lot of 125'ers for you.

yeah, he is getting a bit ripped for what he has written

[BanannaMan]

On the street....
Anyone getting a knee down on the street is merely doing so to show off.
At street speeds and lean angles counter steering and leaning over the tank a bit (more weight to the front) will do more to pick up your speed than getting a knee down providing you are already riding a good line through the bends.

On the track....
The purpose of getting a knee down is to transfer weight on the bike.
You are (should be) leaning off, holding the bike up at this point, not leaning over as far as possible.
The closer a bike is to being upright the faster it will travel through a bend.

Again....You should NOT be leaning over as far as possible in the effort to get a knee down.
This is the mistake you'll find most riders getting knee down on the street doing.
Makes the bike unstable and...
"It's an accident looking for a place to happen".

You get it everywhere don't you most magazine "help me ride" sections ... Icant get my KD like it's some sort of right of passage.. I gave up in my quest for a KD when I realized that throttle control , correct body position , and using my feet were far more important to being faster so now if I'm pulling my 675 through a corner and my knee touches down.. Coolies if not well I'm fused LOL it's one style of riding.
I wonder how manny broken bikes have been sacrificed in idle quests to touch Tarmac?
Think mcn is full of **** too LOL

[Lissa]

We've been held up in corners by people obsessed with getting their knee down