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27-05-10, 05:29 PM
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Leaning your bike
As the nice weather has bought hot sticky roads and hot sticky tyres
 ive been increasing my lean angle bends more and more. I've got about3/4 of an inch from the rim but before i could get to the very edge as i found out the other day my footpegs scraped along the ground before i got to the edge of my tyre. Anybody else found this? My front tyre however is 4mm or so from the edge. Just wondered if others found this too? |
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27-05-10, 05:33 PM
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Re: Leaning your bike
nope, i have no chicken strips on the back and about 5-10mm on the front with avon storms but that could be due to the rear been 38mm higher and having race rear sets, although when i had stock suspension and stock rear sets never seemed to have the pegs grind out but i didn't ride that fast then
how heavy are you ? stock suspension ? |
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27-05-10, 05:53 PM
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Re: Leaning your bike
depends on the tyre fitted.
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27-05-10, 05:55 PM
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Re: Leaning your bike
It maybe your positioning as you lean, do you sit on the seat still or move over off the seat slightly?
I scraped my foot pegs once but that was on an incline roundabout on the edge of the tyre. |
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27-05-10, 06:59 PM
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Re: Leaning your bike
Had dunlops, mich pilots an now bridgstone 023s never have chicken strips dos'nt quite touch down and the gladius has low pegs
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27-05-10, 07:03 PM
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Re: Leaning your bike
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Tyre profiles are different.
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27-05-10, 07:05 PM
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Re: Leaning your bike
My pegs deck out before the tyre reaches the edge too, just the tyre profile you have fitted, don't worry about it.
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27-05-10, 07:11 PM
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Re: Leaning your bike
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Certainly. With Pilot Road 2's id get to the edge of the front and have a fair amount of rear left on the SV. Rare that I scrapped the pegs, but I weigh nothing so maybe I didnt compress the suspension enough? 
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27-05-10, 07:29 PM
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Re: Leaning your bike
As has been said 100% the tyres, my old dunlop d208rs had fat chicken strips on but I'd been scraping my toes (naked though so slightly lower pegs) first day I fitted avon storms I had the rear right over to the edge. I've had the front and back tyre right over on my 650s and only scraped a toe once.
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27-05-10, 07:53 PM
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Re: Leaning your bike
Really? How long are the hero blobs on your pegs?
Not taking the mick, never had an SV but on the four bikes I have had I've never had this.
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