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Badger kicks ***. He has the full face of the slider flush against the road.:hail I get my knee down but I grind off the front corner. :eatcorn
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Ill try that as well , it maybe where i was going wrong :roll
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Never a truer word said, take Mike Hailwood for one, he never got his knee down but managed to go plenty fast enough!
Getting your knee down is loads of fun but dont push yourself to do it before your ready, it will end in tears.
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Mr Badger has summed it up for all of you, ive seen loads of lads hanging off bikes trying to scrape there knee with no joy. Its all to do with body position and getting you foot in the right place.
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my pennies worth.. hope im right.
My thoughts or rather what i have been told is that the reason we shift our weight off the bike is to help us corner faster. ie less weight on the tires and actually leaning off the bike gives you more of a contact patch and therefore more grip for when you role on the throttle.
Imagine sitting bolt upright going round a track bum planted on seat means you will actually have to lean further over (and reach the limits of the tyre sooner) than someone who hangs off correctly and that person will be able to get on the gas sooner as the contact patch of the tyre is greater and provides better grip etc etc.
Most then use the knee slider as a guage to lean/limit for a particular corner rather than trying to get it down each corner/all the time..
Hope this helps too.
My thoughts or rather what i have been told is that the reason we shift our weight off the bike is to help us corner faster. ie less weight on the tires and actually leaning off the bike gives you more of a contact patch and therefore more grip for when you role on the throttle.
Imagine sitting bolt upright going round a track bum planted on seat means you will actually have to lean further over (and reach the limits of the tyre sooner) than someone who hangs off correctly and that person will be able to get on the gas sooner as the contact patch of the tyre is greater and provides better grip etc etc.
Most then use the knee slider as a guage to lean/limit for a particular corner rather than trying to get it down each corner/all the time..
Hope this helps too.
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On the track if you are really on it, you are actually lifting your leg back up to allow more lean angle, Graham is right, it was Kenny Roberts that realised that doing this allowed better corner speeds for a given corner and started to shift his bodyweight more to the inside and hang off the bike more, the kneedown thing was a byproduct of moving his bodyweight of the bike:thumbup
Good idea Steve:-
Maybe a group of us should go out and watch each other to see where we are going wrong get your knee down and think of the joy when it first touches down and sharing that moment with the rsv gang
My advice though is don't get carried away in front of all the lads, treat it as a sort of classroom exercise, take a video or camera to see your own body position, and FFS make sure your tyres are hot enough:thumbup
Good idea Steve:-
Maybe a group of us should go out and watch each other to see where we are going wrong get your knee down and think of the joy when it first touches down and sharing that moment with the rsv gang
My advice though is don't get carried away in front of all the lads, treat it as a sort of classroom exercise, take a video or camera to see your own body position, and FFS make sure your tyres are hot enough:thumbup
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flush like this you mean :devious piece of p### can been done with my eyes shut:lol
all about body positioning this was took at low speed bike hardly over:thumbup
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A pic of Jorge Lorenzo aboard an RSVR... :hail:hail:hail
Thats what you call going for it i guess ... gibbon like :thumbup
All being fine i'll be going for it early monday morning :- )
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The sparks from this picture are coming from his elbow on this one.Seen this picture from the inside angel can't remember where i see it thoughA pic of Jorge Lorenzo aboard an RSVR... :hail:hail:hail
