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Colin wrote:I'm always trying

Think i'm going to have to get myself a minimoto cause thats the only way my knee is going to touch tarmac

are you trying too hard ? just relax and it'll happen one day. i was forever trying and thought it would be on a left hander as thats my preffered bend,i was gobsmacked when my first knee down experience was at redgate as i wasnt trying there and ddint expect it to happen at a right hander

deej wrote:

k7 dave wrote:Well i dont know what all the fuss is about with all this knee down bollocks there is know need just ride the bike instead of looking like someone just about to fall off

is that because your legs are too short to touch the ground

Damn you spotted my problem But like colin says i did it once and we try and try when we looked at the photos from pembrey it looks like our body posistion is all wrong. We could do with being shown one day if you knee down heros dont mind

no worries mate,positioning does make a difference,weirdly the thing that helped me was to actually look through the corner past the apex as that gets your body in a better position

whens your next trackday ?

deej wrote:you probably will have the wrong position when riding on the road as you cant carry as much corner speed or wide sweeping lines like you would on track where you can ride it more textbook.when playing on the roads on the ccm i hang off completely differently to how i ride the zx10 on track.

everyone has there own style and fair play to him for getting his knee down on a vfr750 that takes some doing if youve never got your knee down before. now its time to refine the style and enjoy getting the knee down

Thanks and i agree about differing riding positions.Although ive never been on track i can imagine being on a smooth surface without worrying about oncoming vehicles or debris you can really push yourself and getting your knee down would be a useful technique.

On the roads i am much faster when i concentrate on positioning and lines rather than hanging off as low as possible.i still have a bumcheek off the seat and face near the mirror,but my knee is normally only 8inch or so away from the tank.

deej wrote:no worries mate,positioning does make a difference,weirdly the thing that helped me was to actually look through the corner past the apex as that gets your body in a better position

whens your next trackday ?

We thought we were but looking at the photos we were miles of i suppose are little bellies dont help But if anyone can spare a morning to give us guidence on this just to put us out of our miserey

if i had a road bike i would mate

few tips to try

foot off the side of the peg so you can pivot easier
move your whole body,not just your arse off
look as far through the corner as you can
if on a roundabout a low as gear as possible so the bike turns easier
gentle on the throttle helps too

quick shot so you can see what im talking about

deej wrote:if i had a road bike i would mate

few tips to try

foot off the side of the peg so you can pivot easier
move your whole body,not just your arse off
look as far through the corner as you can
if on a roundabout a low as gear as possible so the bike turns easier
gentle on the throttle helps too

quick shot so you can see what im talking about

Thanks for that m8, We are not getting over far enough and not looking through that corner, I will give more thought when im out next

my mate has a similair problem even though he can get his knee down.he chucks his ass off the seat and then puts his shoulder over the tank to mcounter balance the knee out style which is then making the bike unstable

Well today (for the first time) I got my knee and peg down . Bring on the good weather!

Been thinking about this for a while, I don't tend to hang off, I prefer a inline lean because im more comfortable like that at the moment. But looking at some pics from llandow I think that i cant lean any further, got my peg down on most corners and wore through my toe slider. Like if i hung off would i be close to KD.

Hey well done jonny mate,its a good feeling innit


Steve,Im surprised you didnt lose the front end with that website jammed underneath it.




you certainly got the lean angle,though you might struggle to get your knee down more than you would on a sports bike due to the seat height and riding position.
Mind you,youre a lanky sod like me so you should be able to gets those pins on the floor

Pre 9AM Kneedown is where its at. Had great fun after the Early morning run on Sunday

It took me years to get into hanging off, one I never had any leathers and my first bike (Aprilia RS125) was very light and used to get extremely unsettled when hanging off on bumpy (read: normal) roads. Unless you're going mega fast on the roads then knee down isnt needed and will probably slow you down. For us non riding gods hanging off just shows the pathetic lean angles even more atleast sitting upright makes it feel like you're lent over

Helps massively on the track though as you'll very quickly run out of clearance.

Steve-D, did you see Torpedo in the Inters on his rough old GS500, he was knee down on most corners, no excuses now

steve-d wrote:Been thinking about this for a while, I don't tend to hang off, I prefer a inline lean because im more comfortable like that at the moment. But looking at some pics from llandow I think that i cant lean any further, got my peg down on most corners and wore through my toe slider. Like if i hung off would i be close to KD.

Get the saw and welder to the foot pegs make em higher you'll soon be able to lean further.

steve d if you lean off the bike further and reposition your body it shouldnt be a problem

got to admit there was some serious lean angles being seen at llandow and i was wondering how the heck people stayed on,gavs got a few of the black cbr6 in the inters and in the photos he looks like a crash waiting to happen

I still can’t get my knee down

Perhaps I should go faster

Or is it because people keep getting in my way