I'm faster if I just ride than I am if I muck about with all the knee-waving ;)

Where are all these private roads you all keep going on about.... :wink:

Personally haven't ever ridden a faired bike and don't see the need... they don't look like proper bikes to me but then I am 105...

lol. But for me hanging off the bike means that I can have the bike more upright therefore more rubber touching the ground and that means I can corner much quicker than if I were sitting normally. When sitting normally lean angles are much greater reducing the amount of grip as the contact size is smaller meaning less grip through corners. Phew, man I'm tired now! :) But..........it also looks cool 8)

Tell that to a Class 1 Police rider ;).


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Crash !!! That was my GSXR, leant over too far on a roundabout going over a manhole cover.... No if I had been riding properly, had my **** off the seat etc, it may not have happened....

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Aye, and if you're monkeying about trying to get your knee on the tarmac instead of focusing on your lines and on the road, you'r more likely to balls it up. Plus, if your weight is far off the bike and it gives you a little slide, you've got much less chance of catching it since you don't have the freedom of movement you get by having your weight more centralised.

I hang off, I just don't waste the brainpower thinkign about where my knee is ;)

Much better positioned for an Eddie Lawson style "knee save" though :wink:

I'd like to see you try ;)

Well to each their own of course. And I certainly don't spend all day doing it. In fact it's been a long time since I even tried due to the crap weather we have in this damn country. I also don't do it on roads I don't know for the very reason that there could be a manhole cover/dodgy surface that you don't know about. It is good fun when you do it though and feels real good. And yes Mr plod will not be too impressed if you wizz by him knee sparking all over the place. But then he won't be impressed with my Remus can either :twisted: But then if we all worried about what Mr Plod thought about everyday I doubt we'd ever take our bikes out! Anyway I seem to be knee dragging this thread off topic, ahem. Sorry 'bout that. Nakeds rule! Chicks, bikes, hamsters. Er, forget I mentioned that last one. :wink:

Well I would of course, er, er, um, er, but my Mum says I'm not to because its showing off. :lol: