getting lower

[rs125 rider]

Hello, i have an aprilia rs125, and the chicken strips on the rear tyre are:

RHS: 1 inch
LHS: 1/2 inch

ive tried countersteering and i just carnt get lower, it feels low but its not, the only way i can get any lower is to goto a large carpark and just go round and round in circles, how can i get lower on normal corners?

[Cillit-BANG]

Don't.

Just ride at a pace that your comfortable with. The only way to get rid of them is to lean the bike over more which means taking the bends at higher and higher speeds. Until your comfortable at doing this then don't let it stress you out. It can take at least a couple of years experience before this may happen.

There is a rediculous stigma attached to chicken strips and unused knee sliders, but it's nonsense. Mostly bought about from 'Bigin it up wiv ma mates'

Unfortunately until you get on a race track to take out your anger in a safe and controlled environment you don't realise this. Riding on the road can be fun, but if your trying to push your bikes to the edges then your better off waiting until you get on the track.

My track bike has no chicken strips and my knee will touch down on most corners. My road bike has 1/4" chicken strips and I no longer push myself to get my knee down on public roads. There is far too much at stake, and unfortunately it wasn't until a nasty crash last year that I realised this.

Just ride it and get some miles under your belt.

FFIW, some tyre profiles are worse than others for chicken strips at a given lean angle/corner speed. Just try a different brand on your next pair and see what happens.

[rs125 rider]

the thing is ive been riding a year and a half and have covered over 13,000 kms, also im using bridgestone bt090's, so there pretty damn good.

[Lawnie]

[brooky]

[ram_doom]

Wouldnt the narrow tyres on an RS have to lean a lot less to make a turn than a bike with a 180 or 190?
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[Shaun]

Lean further you pussy!

[bennyboy]

an rs125 has a 150 rear - quite a decent sized tyre
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[ram_doom]

Still a lot narrower than a 190... his strips are only an inch thick right
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[Fadel]

Until about 2 months ago i'd never even heard of chicken strips let alone worrying what mine were like, but I have been checking lately and they're probably about 3mm LHS little bit more RHS.

I'm not going to push it anymore than what I know I can do because my tyres can't keep pressure due to 3 nails in them, the tyres themselves are about 3 years old and the tyre walls are cracked all the way around.

It'll come with confidence and there will be time where you will go into a corner quicker than you thought you did and have to lean further then think 'hmm I guess I could have gone that little bit more' then each time you come to that corner you'll just know you can go through with that more speed and lean that little bit further. It's just confidence and experience.

[SilvaRizla]

^^^Erm, you need new tyres
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[Shaun]

[Jack_Cheese]

Have you derestricted it? You'll need some decent 70mph ish corners to get 'em low. I've got the same sized tyres, and it is a bit weird in a bend when you just can't feel the bike going any lower. I think thats the point at which you have to consciously countersteer to drop the bike onto the edge of the tyre.

Jack
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[extreme3d]

Are you leaning off - i.e. trying to get your knee down?? If so then don't!!..... by leaning off you reduce the bike's lean angle.

[Fadel]

The last MOT (july 05) advised me to get new tyres and I just haven't yet, I realise I am in DESPERATE need for some but, well not got around to it I might be buying an NSR beginning of July.


Oooo, might have to go book in my theory then, heard so many different people saying yes you can, no you can't so was just going to leave it till i'm 17.

Cheers

[JonB]

You better not sell your bike with those tyres on you mong.
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[Rookie]

No point in taking your theory early either, it just means you've got less time to pass your practical, when you're allowed to.

[Fadel]

But it means I won't have to wait another month to do the theory and then to do the practical after totalling up a couple of months atleast, whereas get one part done now, then wait till when i'd have to ANYWAY, finish off with the practical

[frogmella]

I've passed my test less than a month ago and bought a 2nd hand bike that had been right to the edge of the tire.
I've done about 600miles on it now and its developed a a coupla Chicken Stips, i'm gutted. I've got a nice bike and nice kit etc but with the chickstrips I feel a right noobie twat.

[Davo]

[GearboxGeezer]

Im on a RS 125, and its fucking hard to get me knee down ( I still ant got it )

My chicken strips are still there and my knee sliders are unused. I have one spot where I try to get my knee down, and thats at a pretty much empty roundabout ( its a big one though under a bridge ) and has loads of runoff just incase I do go down.

To be honest, if you wona learn how to get low, do it on a track, whats the point in smashing you and your bike up against a curb or wall when you could of just taken a bumpy slide across a gravel trap and walked away?

And another thing, dont think that just because the Moto GP riders lean these bikes over with ease means that you can do the same with ease. They are on the best bikes money can buy, They are on tyres which are designed to last 20 minutes of riding... And most of them have been riding since they was atleast 5 years old

Take care matey.

[JonB]

I took my bike theory test at 16.
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[jonnay]

loop a roundabout for 10 minutes heel pressed against heelplate, knee just sticking out a little, and you'll gradually get lower and lower (and a little dizzy)

My chicken strips when I sold my bike (ignore the gouge in the tyre, that's where a car drove into me and his rusty bumper cut the tyre (didn't puncture it though)

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