can you get your knee down (even if it makes you slower)

[johnnyrod]

Just watched the video clip, that could be one of the crappest displays of excessive dangling at soft-lad lean angles I've ever seen. I'd stay out of the camera lens if this was the best I could do.

Dvelop your own style, get into the hangin off thing a bit at a time so it feels comfortable, you'll find the ground sooner or later. If your toe can go down then so can your knee, just stick it out further.

Originally Posted by Patch

Oh yeah and have crashed whilst doing so and it hurts.

Yup me too. It hurt LOTS

If I wanted to, could do it at will anywhere. Don't do it at all now. Learnt the hard way.

tried for 300miles and still cant

Originally Posted by Vtwinlover

It can be usefull to gauge how far over you are though

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That's what I use the footpegs for.

that film clip looked stupid! my bikes over more than that? i could do with a 12inch spacer between my knee and the puck!

[tinpants]

Don't think its really worth trying, to be honest. I followed a copper on a Beamer a couple of weeks ago. Once I'd got to about 110 I just gave up. Those guys can ride the wheels off anything and they don't have to get their knee down. Personally I think its all down to macho mysticism and such bull****. Is it faster? No. Is it quicker? No, not really! It just de-stabilises the bike and ****es plod off.

Just for the record, yes, I can get mine down. I choose not to as I have seen too many displaced kneecaps etc.

If you want to learn to go faster, do an advanced roadcraft course and learn to read the road better than you do now.

[fizzwheel]

Nope still cant do it, keep trying though, getting closer.

Personally dont care whether cornering is faster or slower with knee down or not down, just something I want to be able to say to myself I can do.

Can I just ask why some people are of the opinion that its not faster to corner with your knee down that the fast GP riders do it, if it was slower surely they wouldnt bother ?

[tinpants]

GP riders do it with far less gap between knee/ leg and bike. Those people who do it in the road are merely deluding themselves that it make them as fast as Rossi Having said that, if you just want prove to yourself that you can do it then crack on!!!! :P :P :P

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

Can I just ask why some people are of the opinion that its not faster to corner with your knee down that the fast GP riders do it, if it was slower surely they wouldnt bother ?

I'd just like to say there's many differences between being fast on a track on a GP bike, and being fast on the road.

[fizzwheel]

Originally Posted by nick lord

GP riders do it with far less gap between knee/ leg and bike. Those people who do it in the road are merely deluding themselves that it make them as fast as Rossi Having said that, if you just want prove to yourself that you can do it then crack on!!!! :P :P :P

I know I'll never be that fast, Thats all I want to do is to prove to myself that I can do it


I am well aware that riding on the road is different than a track, I just wandered what the benefits were for a GP rider in getting their knee down. surely if it was slower they wouldnt do it