full lean?

How long did it take you guys to get the brass ones to lean enough to drag parts?

i just put distanzas on today, went to a empty lot to scrub them up, leaned her as far as i thought she would go, stoped and have like an 1/8th inch chicken strip on the tires still.

how low can this thing go!?


also, dropping the forks in the triples will get the turn in back to stock after the height increase from the new bigger front?

All my life. Still no intention of dragging anything. On purpose.

Love2Lean goes REAL low...

I don't know how low it can go, but it begs the question: How low can you go ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jkowBtwnHM

This is about as low as you can go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqKShV-iN5M&feature=player_embedded

Talk about a controlled slide, awesome!!

well that was amazing, and confusingly arousing.....

Some might call that a controlled crash.

...I can go lower actually. Because I'd be below track level and troughing into the dirt so technically, I'd be lower.

Spacecadet: Lowering the forks will lower the bike, but remember it brings the front end in effectively shortening the wheelbase and therefore reducing the straight-line stability.

So while it will "turn-in" faster (more responsive), at speed you will feel somewhat more ""Twitchyness".

Just noticed he ran over his foot. Ouch.

how low can i go ? till the peg picks it off the lake. so much easyer on a frozen pond. if you fall off just walk back and pick it up.
I can hold it down on clay with the small bikes.knee over carb.peg on ground.Not so much with big ones.
I do none of this on tar,well just a knee.

well i tried to get it super low last night, ended up tucking the front.

so got up thought id try the other way, tucked the front again lol.

guess i need to work on my knee out form.

backing it in is getting better though, its weird though cause backing it in just kind of clicks with me where knee out leaning feels really awkward/foreign.

i get a knee down and don't come close to dragging hard parts. that's part of what getting a knee down is all about, maximizing corner speed while keeping the bike as upright as possible.

gratuitous self promotion, lol

how far off the seat do you have to go?

i have tried getting my knee down but i cant seem to do it so i just keep leaning, then i tuck the front cause my form sucks.

i think ill have to get a video of me doing it so i can see myself from a different perspective and laugh

You don't have to get a knee down or drag pegs to go fast.
If you are trying to do either your are not focused on the corner.
Don't worry about by-products of going fast, they come when you are ready.

Or, don't worry about getting your knee down and just lean the bike and stick your foot out.



you'll still get to the edges and burn up your tire.

on a track I've leaned it far enough that my foot peg was folding up enough I couldn't leave my foot on the peg anymore. been doing the inside leg out in the corners ever since then (on the track) but I can't lean it that far on every turn. I've crashed at less lean angle than that on other corners so there are factors that constantly vary with the rider and the surface that will determine how far the bike can lean at any given moment.

I wouldn't worry about chicken strips on wider tires. The stock tire has a flat profile, there should be no chicken strip on the stock rear. Some wider tires will be impossible to use the whole tire.

Do slow circles in a parking lot if you really want to get low, that is the safest way to learn. There's been threads on SMJ about techniques to get low, if that is your only concern. One thing I will say, you'll probably want more weight on the front than would feel natural.

they swing out the rear. is is basically leaning and applying just enough rear brake to slide the rear?

Downshift an extra gear or two.

My two cents - not that anyone is asking.....

If you're dragging hard parts on public roads you're way over-committed and have no chance to react to something unexpected.

That kind of riding should be on closed courses.

Not public roads.

The whole "chicken strip" non-sense bugs me too.

If somebody questions your manhood based on how much of your rear or front tire you're using you need to hang out with a better class of people.

Ride your bike. Enjoy it. Have fun. How far over you lean shouldn't be something you focus on.

Motokid must have huge chicken strips.

I like chicken strips. :)



To the original poster:
You sound a little too concerned with the this, but, it's your bike.

The only other thing I have to say is that if you keep crashing it trying to reach some goal, you may be simply trying to lean the bike too much, more than the situation calls for.
As was touched on above, the bike won't need or want full lean angle all the time.

Myself, I typically only use as much lean angle as I need, and if those new tires have a different width and/or profile than the stock tires, you may never get rid of that last little bit of strip.
Big deal. :)

i've got em, but that's what happens when you put on a 150 rear

was really more just amazed how far the dam thing leans especially with the new tires.
strips gone now

i know u can lean the piss outa the 150 size tires and never get rid of the half inch strips.

ive leaned mine far enough down to drag the pegs across the ground. thats about it for me lol

wrxpro wrote:

i know u can lean the piss outa the 150 size tires and never get rid of the half inch strips.

only oneyou can get rid of them with I know of is the distanzia 150/60