Leaning

How far can the SV be leant over* before either:

a) it lowsides
b) slides, digs-in and then highsides?

* ^{assuming a standard, dry, clean road - ambient temperature 18 degrees C.}

[northwind]

Depends on the tyres, the setup, the road and the rider, basically. There's no absolute answer. I will say that on good tyres and the right road you can grind your pegs before you run out of grip, no problem.

Is there any warning before IT happenes?

[21QUEST]

Originally Posted by alka

Is there any warning before IT happenes?

Yeah. You can usually either hear yourself think something along the lines of 'Oh ****e'. After that enjoy the ride

Cheers
Ben

Originally Posted by alka

Is there any warning before IT happenes?

The back will slide/step out quite nicely (It must look really cool, quite scary when you first do it though)

Although saying that i've not had my pegs down on my S (Did on a N though, completly unintentionally)
Dan

I have scraped my bar end mirror as well as my brake pedal, exauts pipe & can and my saddlebags no, I don't want to lean that far on a regular basis, I still think I crashed, but somehow the SV uprighted itself perfect at the exit of the blind decreasing radius corner I took a little hot.

what I lernt, don't panic, countersteer to hold you line, and no abrupt throttle or brake inputs at that tilt

The passenger screaming can give you a clue too :P

Originally Posted by RandyO

I have scraped my bar end mirror as well as my brake pedal, exauts pipe & can and my saddlebags no, I don't want to lean that far on a regular basis, I still think I crashed, but somehow the SV uprighted itself perfect at the exit of the blind decreasing radius corner I took a little hot.

what I lernt, don't panic, countersteer to hold you line, and no abrupt throttle or brake inputs at that tilt

yeah bet i looked ****ing cool thou!!!!!

Originally Posted by mpaton2005

How far can the SV be leant over* before either:

a) it lowsides
b) slides, digs-in and then highsides?

* ^{assuming a standard, dry, clean road - ambient temperature 18 degrees C.}

A very long way.
You'll easily scrape pegs before it'll give you any problems.

yer i scaped the pegs today , had the mrs on the back too - though i expect that would be considered cheating since the bike is a lot lower with us both on... certainly wasn't about to lowside anyway