Quick question ?

[new001]

The other day I noticed some bikers during the day putting their foot down on the tarmac during turning on a bend at low speed these weren't learners but full license holders.

Why would they do that, just curious ?

[DMCpro]

Scared of slipping off in the ice, putting ur foot Down won't help atall if your Gunna fall off your Gunna fall off Valentino Rossi does it on the track so not sure of the effects when racing
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[Islander]

[barrkel]

Some riders do it in the wet, on the basis that a minor slide might be saved a little easier. I've saved a couple by leaning off more, so that the bike has more room to regain grip without touching down hard parts.

I've seen a couple of very smooth scooter riders ride with their legs hanging off either side of the scooter (might even have been the same guy I saw twice), I guess they use their feet as feelers for judging lean angle. Risky business if you don't know what you're doing or if you do it at any speed, very easy to break an ankle touching the ground with anything that grips tarmac at speed.

At very slow speed (e.g. switching between lanes of traffic at standstill), I'll sometimes pivot around a foot to do a very sharp but quick turn; usually only on the scooter though.
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[J.M.]

Maybe OP saw super moto riders. Foot out is like the knee down of the sports bike world
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[stinkwheel]

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[Kradmelder]

MX and off road riders do it instead of the knee down. The reason being that you dont lean off raod and try keep the bike as perpendiculr to the road as possible. If the front wheel digs in a quick kick can starighten you and save a high side.

a few times in sand a quick of the ground on the side the front wheel dug in had righted me and saved a fall. But an MX boot is very rigid. you dont want to try it with road boot and risk a broken ankle
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[passifid]

well i have saved ateast one fall doing that, not on tarmac however. i was turining into my road (which is completely unmade and a dirt track) and my rear wheel decided while i was leaning to start sliding more then well, i don't know a slippery thing on a slope made of mud, and i instinctivly foot down and i KNEW i was falling off(i'm not smiler) and saved the day.
But i put it down to not leaning very far and what was happening was the bike was slipping away from me not falling down so i held the front almost in place and the rear kept sliding until it decided to give me gril and away we went
Sounds a bit tall, proably isn't 100% accurate but thats the best i made of it
TL;DR:
I saved a bike from slipping under me by putting my foot down and the rear sliding until it foudn grip/was inline (off road)
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[steady eddie]

I would dispute the above comment.
https://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/stinkwheel/IMG_2568.jpg

bet that took you a while to get up!

"must keep momentum going. Don't stop. Don't stop! Faster. Oh shit
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[stinkwheel]

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[dungbug]

Certainly no high revs, I rode in the snow we have here a few weeks back. I used the same technique as Stinkwheel describes, low revs, slip the clutch & feet down......It was a bitch in a few places but not impossible to get to work & back.
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[new001]

Forgot to add the road was a little wet but was not icy.

[Shinigami]

I rode into my works car park with both feet hovering for a couple of days when it was sheet ice, not much turning involved getting in but reckon it would have helped had a wheel slipped.
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