Posted May 1, 200421 yr literally!! Knee slider missed for some reason, and hit my knee....ouch! (nothing to do with my positioning of course)! A nice mark on my leathers now.
May 1, 200421 yr Author No, right leg, but just on the open road. Nearly draged me off the bike. Quite a shock! Slowed me down a bit, which wasnt a bad thing.
May 2, 200421 yr Moderator Indeed!....REAL leathers don't have any character until they've been scuffed :wink: 8)
May 2, 200421 yr Indeed!....REAL leathers don't have any character until they've been scuffed :wink: 8) lol ive been down the road in mine then got run over by a van comming the other way that decided to get the right hand leg of my leathers stuck underneath. got some nice scrapes and a good rip in the leg :roll: :shock:
May 2, 200421 yr Admin My leathers look pretty fecked :shock: But they are twice as good now as they are covered in extra leather patches Never came off on the road though, touch wood ! Can still remember getting me knee down first time, i was trying so hard to put my knee down and just couldnt do it, but as soon as i just tried to go fast it goes down easy, weird that :roll: Me ripping up tarmac on my local test route :wink: http://members.lycos.co.uk/alexasigno/medown.jpg
May 2, 200421 yr Author I don't ride any where near fast enough to get my knee down without trying. I get my left knee down fine, but its the right one I struggle with (can still get it down if I hang off enough). I always have a chicken strip on the right side of my rear tyre, but none on the left. I think I am conscious of turning in to far on right handers and maybe straying into the opposite lane. Put some shumagic on (black boot polish), and good as new. My leathers are a RST Dark all black, so black polish works ok.
May 3, 200421 yr Its funny that, i can get my right knee down as often as i want but not my left, it just never feels right for some reason......
May 3, 200421 yr Admin Yeah i dont like getting my left knee down as im worried that i might crash into oncoming traffic :shock:
May 3, 200421 yr i feel more confident leaning the bike right over on left handers. have got the pegs down quite alot going left but only once/twice right, strange that
May 3, 200421 yr Moderator Interesting, this Left vs. Right thing ........I feel pretty confident in both directions, but Lefties are bit more confidence inspiring for some reason :? .......1 factor that possibly comes into play here is the gyroscopic effect of the drive chain being on the left of most of our bikes......& then again, there's the Shaft Drive weirdness that's all it's own :dunno
May 3, 200421 yr Author In my youth (single), I used to always own rear wheel drive cars, and I also felt more confident power sliding left, same on Moto X bikes. Then again, all my mates used to say I rode my skateboard wrong. I used to push with my left foot, with my right to the rear of the board, then swivel, and put my left to the front! :shock:
May 3, 200421 yr im around the same, a bit more right, but thats only because i obey the law and go knee down...ok well almost knee down around round a bouts right. thing is, ive never been taught to get my knee down, so i dont posistion my self like the racers. i just lean and ive been told my (unprotected) knee is about 5cm from the floor i just dont want it to touch and watch my kneecap go flying :/
May 4, 200421 yr I have found that my new leathers have different velco patch position to othes and it tends to hit half my slider and my knee! :cry: So I have moved the slider and used a nice roll of black gaffa tape! 6 hour endurance race really messes your leathers up! :roll:
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