Knee and Pegs down

[Vinyardo]

Got my first kneedown today (woohoo!) but as I was practising I kept scraping the pegs, to the point where my knee and pegs are scraping the ground at the same time.

Is this just a matter of body position? I'm leaning off as far as I can (i.e. backside not even touching the seat!) and pushing my knee out as far as possible! I could probably get my knee out a bit further if my trousers weren't so tight...

So, any advice?!


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[G]

Bandit 600s don't have very good ground clearance.
However, the usual answer is hanging off more, which will shift the bike a bit more upright. How far off the bike is your upper body? Ideally your body should be inline off the bike - I usually find my body isn't far enough out looking at pictures, despite what it feels like.

Once you've got that, rear sets and possibly stiffer/raised suspension will help.

[carlperkins00...]

get the top half of your body out further, try get your head past your wing mirror. then you may want to lean forward abit too.

when i started on the hornet i had the same problem. I wasnt leaning my head out far enough, and as i stuck my knee out i had a tendancy to push myself backwards,
so i started leaning my top half off more, stretching knee out further and leaning forward abit.
works a treat!

god job for the KD!

hope this helps. Carl.

[Vinyardo]

Cheers for the advice, I guess my upper body could lean out further - I was just focusing on getting the lower half out!

As for the ground clearance I suppose that is just something to work around!
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[mr.kris]

this is how i look on my bandit 1200 knee down i use a slightly difrent posision on the ZX6R
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HAYABUSA now in use!

[carlperkins00...]

[Vinyardo]

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

You have to really exagerrate your movements when it's not familar to you.

When I ride on track it feels like my upper body's off loads, but it's usually just inline with my arse, so not masses off, and not as much as I thought it was.....
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