chicken strips.

Originally Posted by barwel1992

petevtwin650 might know this but on the way to leamington spa vire the coventry road and then the fly over, past michauls potatos the tight 90o s bend is one of other places i have tried to do it, has new(ish) road surface and the camber is just right going one way (not the other)

Yes, the right hand bend (coming from Rugby) after the straight mile. Always a bit wary there as lorries pull out of the Potato place and might dump diesel or mud on it plus it has a left turn on it so vehicles might cross in front of you having misjudged your speed. Nice bit of road down to Princethorpe

[Red Herring]

Originally Posted by kwak zzr

police motorcyclists dont get their KD but try and beat one round a corner

Speak for yourself, it's just not considered appropriate behaviour... besides with all the rubbish they've hung on the latest BMWs it's a real struggle to get your body position right.

still very quick tho

Originally Posted by petevtwin650

Yes, the right hand bend (coming from Rugby) after the straight mile. Always a bit wary there as lorries pull out of the Potato place and might dump diesel or mud on it plus it has a left turn on it so vehicles might cross in front of you having misjudged your speed. Nice bit of road down to Princethorpe

no no not that bit after that corner and the after the next one ther is like a snakey bit then you get to a sharp left and then a sharp right (that corner) then that goes past the salvage place or what ever it is

attached image, and i dont like that corner where potato place is, the one after is brill thogh well it is coming towards rugby

Originally Posted by metalangel

Yeah - elbow down!

They have it easy in MotoGP! Laying down on the job...

As to chicken strips... On the SV I had very little on the front, maybe a mm, on the back about 5mm. Thats because the rear tyre is pinched, by that I mean a 160 tyre should really have a 5" rim, but its on a 4.5" rim on the SV.

Now on the Falco I have small chicken strips on the front (cos its a 120/70 vs the 120/60 on the SV) and none at all on the back, that's a 180/55 on a 6" rim. So as you can see its more to do with tyre/rim size than rider ability.

hmm intresting i was wondering how easy it is to fit a wider rim? but heard thers a lot of mashining involved

[ophic]

chicken strips and knee down are kind of opposite things. The whole point of leaning off the bike is to keep it as upright as possible. If you want to get rid of chicken strips, just lean to the opposite side in a corner - the bike will then have to lean more, and assuming you don't end up in a hedge, the chicken strips will quickly be gone.

Getting knee down whilst on the edge of the tyre is definitely something for track days imho.

[CheGuevara]

Originally Posted by barwel1992

hmm intresting i was wondering how easy it is to fit a wider rim? but heard thers a lot of mashining involved

I don't think it's really necessary - while it might be a *bit* more difficult to get to the edge I still think there's more than enough tire availabe to use. There are certainly some very fast riders/racers on the stock combo.

That said, I plan to swap to a late model GSXR wheel (sitting in my garage) - mostly for the aesthetics. To do this I need a few spacers machined, and a bit milled off of the caliper hanger and the GSXR sprocket carrier. I don't expect to go any faster as a result, or even to lean any further - I may have a slightly larger contact patch at my limit, but I don't ever expect to be that far over on the road unless I've misjudged a corner perhaps.

no i know it wont do any thing for my riding but the look i do like, plus its somthing to add to my mod list

Originally Posted by barwel1992

no no not that bit after that corner and the after the next one ther is like a snakey bit then you get to a sharp left and then a sharp right (that corner) then that goes past the salvage place or what ever it is

Not keen on that one either, as there is not a lot of vision as you attack the 1st 90 degree-er. Plus there is the right hand junction out and possibility of cyclists.

One of my favourites used to be this one



On the road between Princethorpe and Hunningham Hill. Used to be able to go quite quickly there until, once,there was a car turning right at the junction on the bottom of the pic. Luckily he just started to move and I managed to zoom up between him and the high kerb. Don't go so quickly there now