Trailing Legs ...

[Motorhate]

I've seen a trend in and around London by both bikers and scooterists to leave one leg trailing down while riding and not on the foot-pegs, surely this is dangerous? I notice more scooterists doing this than bikers but when I did my test a while back, an Italian bloke was constantly being bollocked for doing this. Anyone partake in this practice?
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[andys675]

I've done it in slippery / icy conditions, the odd dab of the foot has saved me from throwing the bike down the road in the past, I think scooter owners do it from having bald tyres and being used to being thrown off on every greasy corner as they don't understand why it happens
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[Islander]

It's not the best idea - a heavy pendulum hanging off the bike doesn't do much for stability. In icy conditions it's a different matter - it's usually both legs with feet skimming the ground and at really low speed.

Perhaps they think they're moto gp riders doing the heavy braking foot dangle.

[Chalky.]

I drop my legs and drag my feet when I start aching on the motorway, it's very dangerous and I've died 4 times so far doing it.

[Islander]

[GeorgeB.]

The parking wardens round 'ere tend to do it a lot. They all "ride" 50cc mopeds with L plates on.
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[doggone]

There will be a chance of injuring your lower leg or ankle if you caught a kerb or something.
That doesn't happen very often, but I have had an incident from the leg being knocked back trailing it while parking or setting off

[Ribenapigeon]

Do you mean dabbing your foot down paddling away from standing or feet and legs trailing behind you as your bike pulls so much G force you cant quite get them on to the pegs stylee?

If the former then its just bad technique scooter style muppetry. Personally if the bikes moving my feet are up and they only go down if im coming to a stop, end of.

[doggone]

What can happen is you catch your foot on some little imperfection, and it gets yanked back against the peg or other part of the bike - with your toe on the ground and heel under the peg.
Even at very low speeds this is pretty nasty and even good boots won't necessarily help.

[Snorty]

Try it on a cat's eye at 50mph

Fun.

They think they're doing the doctor's dangle.
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[Spangled]

Sometimes when setting off I let the foot used to hold me up hang back until I reach a reasonable speed then it gets back on the foot peg don't know why it just feels more comfortable

[stevo as b4]

I always thought that trailing legs were just for giving it the classic lay down drag bike look at traffic light starts?

[TheSmiler]

Done it before mainly when I started riding only because my foot would sit on the brake pedal just not pressing it. It's a good way to stop this habit.
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[Marcg868]

I pulled out of a junction with too much throttle last Feb and got a wobble on, stuck my foot down and it dragged my leg backwards. Fractured fibula, torn Lateral ligament, anterior, medial ligaments, torn meniscus and torn articular cartilage.

12 weeks in a cast, 6 in a knee brace. Knee arthroscopy to repair ligaments and meniscus and lastly in December microfracture surgery for articular cartilage.

It would of been cheaper to crash.
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[Pete.]

I saw a guy doing it whilst texting on his phone. Must have been some kind of ninja.
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Rogerborg]

[kevin_cambs_uk]

For some reason I have tended to keep my left foot out when turning right out if a junction, even though I start with my right on the peg, and keep it there.

Then once straight up, I put it back on, I saw Cal Crutchlow do it on Moto GP...

[TheSmiler]

[barrkel]

I've noticed it too. It's generally done in a straight line, nothing to do with cornering or risk of sliding.

Personally I put both feet up before throttling on when I'm on the scooter, because I don't want to risk my feet hitting anything and I'm generally a couple of metres from filtering again - feet up means narrower.

A weird thing I see on some quite proficient scooter riders is hanging their feet off on either side, almost like they were riding a horse bareback. The guys I've seen do this take corners very smoothly, and do center-stand scraping u-turns at a fair pace. Or it may have just been the one guy I've seen multiple times. Looked very odd.
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[Ribenapigeon]

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[barrkel]

[gorillaonabik...]

I do it around London for balance. It's instinctive, nothing more.
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