Showboating
 

The "standing on bike" thread in the photo's section got me thinking.
Do you "showboat" on the road and is it ok to do?

I don't mean standing on your bike or riding with no hands but lean further into corners than you "have to" or getting your knee down or taking corners etc with a bit more "flare" than is strictly neccesary :)
Even revving the enginge at the lights or backfiring the engine.

I try to get the bike over as far as possable any chance I get for the practice Smile and like to try to keep it running in a gear that has the bike making a nice roar :D

Oh yes think we're all guilty of this one, my fav at the moment is getting the overrun popping away as I gio past bus stops on my waqy to work. Apprently managed to get a short blue flames coming out of the can

hell we all do it, just changing/moding your bike is a form of showboating, i do showboat but not so much on the road, more on my bike. ie my akrapovic exhaust & my xring gold chain & sprockets.

:oops: :oops: I used to have a couple of "fanettes" at a bustop near St Albans when that was our main office as I would fly past at 100 odd mph every morning.
Sadly we've moved and I'm far to sensable due to fear of being banned again to do that anymore :(
It was hard to tell at that speed but I think they were cute...and female :shock:

Trying to get my knee down is proving to be a nightmare, in leathers with knee sliders i can hover it about an inch above floor and it won't go no more but i've got about 3 mill of the floor in my textiles and realised it'd just tear a hole in them :roll: before backing off a bit.

Thing is i have just wrecked a pair of toe slider's cos i keep grounding out on the roundabouts..... :lol: 8) am i just not sticking my knee out far enough ??

Since i've fitted my blueflame high level i can't stop making the bike growl and bang :twisted:

Maybe not getting your **** and knee out enough :D
Just don't push yourself further than you feel comforatble :)
Better to be gutted your an inch short than to be gutted you got your knee down but your not on your bike anymore :D

Never felt uncomfortable doing it, it's getting to be TOO easy to get down in textiles....but leathers are proving to be a problem...maybe my lickle legs wont stretch as far out in leathers.

I WILL SCRAPE MY SLIDERS :twisted:
even if it is with a belt sander Ha Ha Ha

Talculm powder maybe :D

Something to aspire to for all those true showboaters out there.......
http://www.superbike.co.uk/images/fo...360stoppie.mpg

Easy :lol: .


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Don't do it myself but when I see others doing stuff - popping wheelies/stoppies and so on, it always cheers me up no end, so long as they don't then go and lose control or bin it... then they just look daft. Maybe will do it one day but for now am too busy concentrating on road conditions, postioning, etc. to have spare capacity for any flare.

....Wow... :o

That Full English Breakfast clip has made me starving tho... :lol:

I love the full english but I have to admit the Full American we had in NY had that wow factor.

Bacon, Sausage, Egg, Pork Chop, Chicken, Chips and a Cuppa :p

Pork chop? CHICKEN? In a breakfast?... They're supper items.. :lol: Waste of space. :P

3 bacon, 2 sausage, 2 eggs, LOADS of fried mushrooms, beans, hash browns and bread'n'butter. *drools*

Something I've been introduced to lately tho, which I never thought I'd go for is steak (rare, which i grew up on in Canada) and eggs.... EGG?? With steak? You're kidding right?.... OH YEAH BABY.... Lush. :lol:

yeah I "discovered" that in Taiwan, Had to admit it works well :)
Called a Newyorker isn't it?

Had a JD (Jack Daniels) steak out in America and thats just love on a plate :D

I just got my knee down on Monday afternoon. I completely wore a hole through my black rains before I remembered that I don't have toe sliders. Needed new boots anyway.
The thing that made the difference for me was the advice given to me by Lee, get your **** right out of the seat, leg out as far as possible, lean in and then try to kiss the outside mirror.
Works a treat.