Touch down !!!Now with pictures and vid

The#Doctor# · Spanner Monkey Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Karma :

Yeeeeeeeeees me and my brother 'v - twinracer' both got our knee down earlier for the first time, he got it first and just said that i needed to hang off more so i did and did, once we had done it once we were just doing circuits with it scraping the whole way round, had a brilliant ride managed to do a jump over hill aswell, going to go out later and do it again Twisted Evil

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mrchips · World Chat Champion Joined: 05 Mar 2004 Karma :

Congratulations.
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Sparks! · Sir Tart-a-lot Joined: 30 Aug 2003 Karma :

Does V-twinRacer actually race vtwins? does he race anything?

Only just got his knee down yet racing vtwins??

Congrats on the knee down though, good fun (till you descover that wheelies are more fun Laughing

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The#Doctor# · Spanner Monkey Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Karma :

A J · Scooby Slapper Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Karma :

As said above i used to have a 125 intruder which was a v twin, so need to change my name but don't want to become a L plate warrior again anyone know how to do this??

Im the black and silver cbr and my brother is the all black cbr Cool

Silver · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Oct 2004 Karma :

bish777 · World Chat Champion Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Karma :

my first knee scraping experience was when caning my old XBR500 around the abbey wood rounabout in bristol!

Well done that man.
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Hennessy · Nitrous Nuisance Joined: 18 Jan 2005 Karma :

hey, congrats... soon ill be out there gettin my knee down too on the R6 Twisted Evil

Oooooo, and I just bought some new toe sliders for my Alpinestars Boots! There Magnesium Alloy which I have no idea about but all I know is that it makes it spark when theres friction! Twisted Evil

-Hennessy
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A J · Scooby Slapper Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Karma :

When i was pushing my knee down the toe of my boot touched down aswell, and yes the balls of my feet are on the pegs not the flat .

I cant wait to get back there and do it again, iv bin putting my knee down on that roundabout all day!!

Strange how i couldnt do it before now i find it so easy to just put it down
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Hennessy · Nitrous Nuisance Joined: 18 Jan 2005 Karma :

In your pic, its seems as though the rubber from the Kneeslider is now on the tarmac!! You can see lines going round, lol Thumbs Up

And in The Doctor's pic I bet that Right Indicator was on a long long time!

-Hennessy
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A J · Scooby Slapper Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Karma :

Yeah there was pieces of our knee sliders on the tarmac, we also got a few laughs and thumbs ups from the truck and van drivers.

Laughing

There was red and blue lines going round and round looks like someones gone round with some crayons Laughing

pocket_Rocket · Scooby Slapper Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Karma :

cool vid !!

have you got your left down yet??

Cool

ZaphodBeeble · World Chat Champion Joined: 10 Feb 2004 Karma :

I think toe down is more fun. I don't bother sticking my knee out, I just lean over until my toes hit the deck, either that or my pegs. The pegs are low on my bike though, it's getting tedious.
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JakeyC · Scooby Slapper Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Karma :

would it be possible to get my knee down on my NSR? i have come really close but feel as if the tires are going to squash in lol and im just going to fall off

A J · Scooby Slapper Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Karma :

Yeah you should be able to, a freind of mine used to do it on his RS .

The key is to really hang off and push your leg to the back of the bike, thats the way i did it anyway.

Iv got about half a mil of chicken stripe so if you have got the same then you no that its just a matter of hanging off.

Twisted Evil

ZaphodBeeble · World Chat Champion Joined: 10 Feb 2004 Karma :

Getting your knee down on the NSR is no problem, just lean it over and poke your knee out. The NSR will do it, you just have to have faith!
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DM · Scooby Slapper Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Karma :

Don't mean any disrespect at all by saying this, since I hope to have a bike I can comfortably knee-down with one day, but it seems those lean angles are easily manageable without putting your knee down. Mind you, I lean well ahead of the bike into corners, but it seems to be more for the sake of bragging rights getting your knee down than neccessity.

Dark · World Chat Champion Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Karma :

You have to be cornering very fast for knee dragging to become a necessity admittedly, but it does become essential.

Keen · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Apr 2002 Karma :

congratulations Smile

you should see some people's desperate knee-downs on sites like www.bikepics.com, the bikes are pretty much vertical and they're hanging of like monkeys! looks so lame....

I've never managed it but then I don't have leather trousers or sliders, I can get my toe down easily enough but just the way I ride I don't hang off to such an extreme angle.... I prefer to lean just a bit and pull the bike over more.
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The#Doctor# · Spanner Monkey Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Karma :

colin1 · Captain Safety Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Karma :

the point of knee down is to reduce how much you need to lean the bike when cornering

by hanging off you can still move the centre of gravity to the right (for turning right) without having to lean the bike over so much

this mattered more in the days b4 fat sports tyres
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DM · Scooby Slapper Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Karma :

Yeah, I know the real purpose of getting your knee down, etc, and I guess that maybe I'm a bit jealous that my tank isn't secured well enough to hold my outside knee to be able to do it. But around roundabouts it just seems so easy, especially when I'm caning my bike around corners with the thing drifting and bucking and reaching some impressive lean angles and I've never bothered trying to GMKD. I think it's just bitterness, because I fully know you need to start somewhere and lower speeds and lesser angles are obviously the best place to start. But it just bugs me that getting your knee down seems to be such an important milestone of riding when it isn't necessarily a good indicator of true riding skill.

I know I sound overly negative, but I'm afraid I'm just in that mood lately Razz

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