Chicken Strips

[northwind]

Peter Henry nailed it I think... Plus different profiles are physically harder to get to the edge of the tyres. Metzeler/Pirellii carcasses have a road surface that physically goes round further than some others- Pilot Powers get to the edge far faster than Sportecs, for example.

Plus, of course, if you place your body weight right you don't need to lean the bike as far- so if you're as fast as your mates but have bigger strips (and the same tyres) that actually prives you're making better use of your body weight.

[Balky001]

Originally Posted by northwind

Plus, of course, if you place your body weight right you don't need to lean the bike as far- so if you're as fast as your mates but have bigger strips (and the same tyres) that actually prives you're making better use of your body weight.

That's true Northy, but you could have greater conrner speed leaning it as much and having the correct body position.

The size of your strips is also down to the bike's geometry. I found my SV could go to the edge back and front, the GSXR nevers seems to lose all the strip from the front whereas the rear is on its rims.

oi whats wrong with asking for a coke in a pub !???


last year on my 010's during summer i has no chicken strips what so ever, but then in august last year i had an off which i feels may in part be down to the tyres. because they always felt unsteady in the wet. this year i have diablos & the strips are huge at the moment, but i hope to get them down a lot come summer. I don't care about the how big the strips tbh i just ride for myself.

I keep mine so that I can tell any policeman interested in my riding 'That couldn't have been me, I ride like a girl- look at the chicken strips'

I keep mine so that I can tell any policeman interested in my riding 'That couldn't have been me, I ride like a girl- look at the chicken strips'

You know Drew? That is indeed a very cunning ploy!

Originally Posted by Peter Henry

You know Drew? That is indeed a very cunning ploy!

Bah damn, why did you have to go and let everybody know about the plot?!

[dirtydog]

Originally Posted by Scooby Drew

I keep mine so that I can tell any policeman interested in my riding 'That couldn't have been me, I ride like a girl- look at the chicken strips'

and boy do they do they take an interest in your riding especially when you overtake a car when you shouldn't i.e when the said police man is driving the other way (towards you) and then catches us all up and hands out leaflets about safe riding

There are both sensible and ludicrous arguments for & against chicken strips, but they are all pointless; hot wings are much nicer!








On bike tyres though, I often think chicken strips are dangerous things, almost as bad as toe and knee sliders. ANYTHING that inspires macho peer presssure is a bad thing.

Folks worry about them, and worried bikers are accidents waiting to happen.


Forget about 'em, relax & ride for enjoyment rather than the removal of a pristine piece of rubber.

Originally Posted by K

...On bike tyres though, I often think chicken strips are dangerous things, almost as bad as toe and knee sliders. ANYTHING that inspires macho peer presssure is a bad thing.

I took mine off after I pulled up at some lights and a pedestrian looks at my sliders and says 'New, are they?'

Originally Posted by Scooby Drew

I took mine off after I pulled up at some lights and a pedestrian looks at my sliders and says 'New, are they?'

Now that i dont have a bike to ride, i stare longingly at my leathers hung up in my room.

Both sliders are worn right down, the toe sliders on both of my boots are sufficiently scrubbed down, both front and rear tyres had NIL chicken strips, and even better, the hero blobs under my feet pegs were worn down... angle of the dangle is directionally proportionate to the heat of the meat etc.

I used to ride like i had a bee in my helmet... fast in the country side, and steady in town... but i rode so damned fast... (balls out all the time) in the country that it eventually got me a nice hefty driving ban.

Nothing to be proud of itself.. but i still look at my leathers and remember days gone by...

Ahh... the good ol days.