Hire-bike kneedown

[Villers]

Finally got round to getting this off the GF's phone and onto my laptop.

Heres a pic of me putting a hired 600 hornet through its paces on a backroad (not a roundabout ) a few months ago

https://VillersCBR.mypicgallery.com/VillersPK/photo-0069_large.jpg
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[instigator]

You like the hornet then?

[dodsi]

AT LAST A PROPER KNEE DOWN THREAD!

I have been waiting for some proper knee downs, not hanging off the bike like a fucking monkey on a bloody roundabout like too many people do.

I salut you sir!

[Villers]

[KevTM]

nice one! as said it's good to see a 'proper' kneedown away from roundabouts.

stilll need to get my kneedoon myself, i haven't doon a good wheelie, a stoppie, a toedown or a kneedown, i'm pathetic

[Villers]

Just build up slow, lean forward, with the toes of the prospective knee down leg on the peg, your opposite leg wrappede firmly round the tank, get your head towards the mirror, lean and hang whilst sticking your knee out as far as you can! Take it easy and build up though.


On the subject, I bought a pair of Wiz sparkies and the bleedin rods keep coming out them.


https://VillersCBR.mypicgallery.com/VillersPK/dsc00092_large.jpg

https://VillersCBR.mypicgallery.com/VillersPK/dsc00091_large.jpg

Pictures taken with my cameraphone!

Bastards! Anyone else have any experience with defective wiz sliders?
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[G]

Finally sorted out my riding position; nothing wrong with hanging off like a monkey, helps me not fall off .

https://www.evilbendy.co.uk/gallery/displayimage.php?album=61&pos=50

[Villers]

Looking good mr G but Im betting you have far more experience than me, i.e you know that once the knee touches thats your limit. Im just pleased to get it down!

Cant wait to get on a track!!
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[.....]

Had my first kneedown the other day and was quite different from most - was on a left hander and not a roundabout in sight

[G]

Wasn't riding great in that pic - I'm sure I could have taken that corner at much more lean - as I think I was leaning a fair bit further on a /lot/ faster (probably 100mph or so) corner when I'd just got past a couple of people - though did finally find the limit there.

Posted the pic to show the 'hanging off like a monkey style - which I have been working to make a bit more instinctual on the road.

[Josh|RD125LC]

I love Hornets. Cracking bikes, look especially good when they have twin zorsts! Looking at getting one but have yet to find one cheap enough.

Villers I see your a member of 125cc Sports Bikes then?
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[mchaggis]

[Villers]

[instigator]

[mchaggis]

[G]

Most I've seen do, you'd think it'd be easy enough to have a slighty wider base or something to hold it in - but then not that I buy titanium knee sliders, I do own one pair, but they're motrax teardrops, so just fall of ya' leg as one!

[Josh|RD125LC]