Depends on riding style too....

My dad who used to race never got his knee down, but is still a blindingly fast rider.

I get my knee down, I like the feeling, also suits my riding style, It also helped me when I was racing to 'feel' what the bike was doing too.

Quite funny watchin guys on track days getting to a corner and attempting to get their knee down ends up slowing themselves down by a lot trying to do it lol :)

Going round roundabouts is easy with your knee down, not my idea of fun tho, each to their own.

[Edited by TBMeech - 9/3/2002 3:09:22 PM]

Just wondering, If you have done it, why do you like it, If you havn't, do you not want to, or has the occasion just not occured yet ?

I'm not bothered about getting a knee down (probably 'cos on my own bike it's not possible without fitting rearsets and a lower seat) but I DO like touching my toe on the right and the stand tang on the left :D

For me it's more to do with taking the corner as fast and as accurately as I can (on clear roads when it's safe to do so, observing speed limits ;)) and approaching the limit of the bike.

The only point in doing it on a road bike is to be able say you have done it, and to make your poser knee sliders look used.

Just my opinion you understand ;)

its a bit of a laugh - like getting a the back of car out.

doesnt make you faster (on the road at any rate) but lapping a roundabout with a knee on ground and pipe / blob / bodywork scraping along the ground is (i think at any rate) fun

I can honestly say I have never go my knee down on a British road. Spain, yes, on the track, yes, but not on blighty's crap roads.

asking for trouble on normal roads. there could be a protruding manhole cover or a stone or something that'll take yer knee cap off :eek:

I got both my knees down a couple of months ago. Thanks again to the knob who decided to run across 2 lanes of traffic.

And my arse, head and elbows come to mention it...

Sorry to hear that Gooser,

Hope your well

BTW, hows the bike ?

Well luckily, I'd just sold the SV, and the XR just slid down the road. If I could have walked, it would have ridden home. Just needed new bars at the cost of £34. Obviously the plastics are scratched to death, but a can of Plasticote covered them up. Still shagged leathers and lid and me Sidi's but as it was a pedestrian, I can't get any money back.

Thats annoying. I hope you got an apology outta the Ped ?

Well, I hopped over to him cursing, but he was fresh out of India, and didn't speak a word of English. Still, good old Acerbis handguards saved my hands, but kinda smashed his jaw / forearm bones.

but lapping a roundabout with a knee on ground and pipe / blob / bodywork scraping along the ground is (i think at any rate) fun

err.... beg to differ, but i`d call that boring.On an unfamilar road its fun, but certainly not a roundabout FFS!


Rich.

whatever

i think you've got to be totally insane to get your knee down on an unfamiliar road.

Not necessarily, but you've gotta be able to see where the exit of the corner is. If it's blind, then you're a loon.

gooser

What is this plasticote stuff ? I have a couple of scuffs from when I dropped my bike from a standstill (doh!).

Thanks

It's a spray can from Homebase, got loads of different types of applications, and it took well enough to the XR's plastics. Thing is I could get away with it on the trailie coz it's quite a few different colours anyway, and the finish on the plastics was matt, not glossy. If you're looking at spraying fairings etc on a road bike, you won't get a proper colour match to the original and you'd probably need a plasticiser compound to get the paint to stick.

ok ok i gotta get out more, fair enough...

:)

lol a cookiemonster :)

Having said that knee down on a Vmax round a roundabout that would be interesting, of course forgetting about the long hospital spell afterwards :)

Corner....















.... with knee on deck!! :D

yeah - i forgot to say that i ride a trike

:D

TBMeech makes a good point -- multi world champions like Mike Hailwood, Agostini, Phil Read etc NEVER got their knees down. And Hailwood did a 114mph lap of the TT on an RG500, so he wasn't exactly slow :D

But it is fun ;)

I love it, road or track. Grin city!

http://www.episode-7.com/images/brands.jpg

Cheers Brickboy, its all down to style, I love it tho, getting knee down road / track etc is fun to me :)