My day (I crashed a little bit!)

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Originally Posted by BigApe

I like to play lets get rid of the elephant feet.

Elephants feet?

Is this like chicken fajitas taken to the next level? lol

Originally Posted by jimmy-james

I get paranoid of all the gravel and diesel spilt around here and how the bike will react to hitting it. I cant afford to fall off and wreck my bike even though the bike is far more capable than me at the minute.

Exactly how I feel mate.

Originally Posted by AndyL

Exactly how I feel mate.

Just come back from an outing with the mrs on her bandit and was feeling a bit more brave but there was always a damned can in the way. I'm still not that brave yet

[chris8886]

Originally Posted by jimmy-james

Glad you you are ok mate. Curiously, what tyres are you on as i've been told that those types of angles are impossible unless you are on sticky racing ones? I'm still trying to find my boundarys on my MEZ4's but have no idea because they are impossible to predict. I have Avon Storms coming and i'm hoping all the hype is true. Cool pictures by the way and get yourself some sliders!

Originally Posted by AndyL

Exactly how I feel mate.

definatly get rid of the MEZ4's, the handling of my bike changed for the better instantly!!

just build some confidence up on the new tyres for a while and then when the weather gets better in the spring. scout out a nice big roundabout with a good surface that you can see all the way round. wait till it's nice and quiet and see what you can do.

although i would say the best thing would be to go on a track day (the most fun you'll ever have) and while there ask one of the instructors to go out on track with you (usually free). i did this and before i knew it without intending to my knee was scraping around the last few corners of silverstone

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Originally Posted by jimmy-james

Just come back from an outing with the mrs on her bandit and was feeling a bit more brave but there was always a damned can in the way. I'm still not that brave yet

Are you just try to get big lean or scrape your knee?

After reading some of your posts in the 'Filming Thread' I would have thought the type of riding required to do either on the road would be against your morals anyway.

If your bothered about diesel/cars/gravel......then book a cheap trackday and really realise what your bike is capable of.

Originally Posted by G

Are you just try to get big lean or scrape your knee?

After reading some of your posts in the 'Filming Thread' I would have thought the type of riding required to do either on the road would be against your morals anyway.

If your bothered about diesel/cars/gravel......then book a cheap trackday and really realise what your bike is capable of.

I just feel like its a thing i should be able to do although in reality a big lean would surfice most of the time. Track day is he way me thinks. Is there any likleyhood of and org trackday in the future?

Originally Posted by G

Elephants feet?

Is this like chicken fajitas taken to the next level? lol

Next time you look at a Metzler z6, have a look at the outside edge of the tire tread.

Just tried to google for a picture but came up blank

Originally Posted by chakraist

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Getting people taking pic's of you KD ... you tart!!

looks like a fair bit more lean than your normal roundabout surfer ... bearing in mind the normal ground clearance issues of the SV, have you got a large rear shock and some rearsets?

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by chakraist

So I was on a rideout with the Kent Motorcycle Society from uni, we were down at the Pfizer roundabouts being naughty boys and girls. I had the bike cranked over a hell of a lot, lost rear grip, caught it before it highsided me, but as it gripped again it was very wobbly, moved about a lot and turned rather awkwardly to the inside of the roundabout, leaving me almost on the kerb; suffice to say I got the bike slowed down to about 5 mph when it sort of ghostied itself away from me; it landed on my leg, which was lucky as the only damage is a small scuff on the motoslider, a touch-upable scratch on the fairing and the rhs indicator. I felt a bit silly but then I was carrying more corner speed than the majority of people there, one guy came up to me and was like 'I am very embarrassed,' I was like, 'yeah, but you didn't crash!'


Anyways, here's some pictures of me from the day:





There are more but they're pretty much the same; also it looks like my peg is scraping on one of them?

looks cool, what kind of speed you doing?

Originally Posted by Blue_SV650S

Getting people taking pic's of you KD ... you tart!!

looks like a fair bit more lean than your normal roundabout surfer ... bearing in mind the normal ground clearance issues of the SV, have you got a large rear shock and some rearsets?

There are pics of loads of people, about 7 bikes out :P

Shock's all the way up; but I do weigh a lot. My pegs are narrower than the OEM ones by about an inch and sort of go pointy at the end, it stops them digging in when they scrape, but I do have a lot of ground clearance it seems!

Originally Posted by dave20046

stuff

I was doing about 45 when I stacked it, probably about 40 there. About 8k rpm in second.