Hanging off the bike on public roads..

[WaferThinHam]

Mastodon2 said:

WaferThinHam said:

Funny that everyone's the fastest road rider ever when there are no cameras about. Ho hum.

The cameras tend to make fast road riding an expensive habit



That said, there is definitely a divide between the "I don't hang off" and the "Do you even lean, bro?" camps.

Maybe so. I'd argue the divide seems to be more marked and more passionately defended on there than on a few other forums I've been on.

Edited by WaferThinHam on Sunday 13th July 20:21

[Biker's Nemesis]

WaferThinHam said:

Funny that everyone's the fastest road rider ever when there are no cameras about. Ho hum.

I started off saying I was awesome after a few on here would always add that they were pretty damn quick by anyone's standard.

Just switch the computer off and do something else.

P.S.

I am awesome BTW

[Mastodon2]

Reach the elephant to win the prize.

[Biker's Nemesis]

Let your tyres down to 15 psi and then do over 100 mph for a couple of miles...


No more Mr Elephant.

[moanthebairns]

Biker's Nemesis said:

Let your tyres down to 15 psi and then do over 100 mph for a couple of miles...


No more Mr Elephant.

your obsessed with letting air out of tyres

[Biker's Nemesis]

moanthebairns said:

your obsessed with letting air out of tyres

I nearly highsided at Knockhill because I had left my glasses in the van and thought 32 psi was 22psi.

[moanthebairns]

Biker's Nemesis said:

moanthebairns said:

your obsessed with letting air out of tyres

I nearly highsided at Knockhill because I had left my glasses in the van and thought 32 psi was 22psi.

your range worked btw, as it was cooler and wet I only dropped my pressures a few psi, after coming out of duffus and feeling the rear being hard as nails and highside city I dropped it to 28 hot and bike felt much better.

[Biker's Nemesis]

moanthebairns said:

your range worked btw, as it was cooler and wet I only dropped my pressures a few psi, after coming out of duffus and feeling the rear being hard as nails and highside city I dropped it to 28 hot and bike felt much better.

Yeah, you have to drop the pressures unless you want to ride like you do on the road.

[Baryonyx]

Hanging out the back on public roads? What manner of filth is this?

[Mastodon2]

Biker's Nemesis said:

Let your tyres down to 15 psi and then do over 100 mph for a couple of miles...


No more Mr Elephant.

I'm sure someone here said they'd seen a Ducati on the road which had clearly had sandpaper taken the tyres to make it look like it had been right over. Get the wet and dry out, bye bye Elephant.

[Baryonyx]

Don't some people scrub their chicken strips with wet and dry to prep them for use? Something about predictable response when keying the tyre in to the road!

[moanthebairns]

Biker's Nemesis said:

moanthebairns said:

your range worked btw, as it was cooler and wet I only dropped my pressures a few psi, after coming out of duffus and feeling the rear being hard as nails and highside city I dropped it to 28 hot and bike felt much better.

Yeah, you have to drop the pressures unless you want to ride like you do on the road.

I blame Mackenzie he told me not to bother that day and before

the guy from work was going to sand his off to remove the releasing agent

[WaferThinHam]

Baryonyx said:

Don't some people scrub their chicken strips with wet and dry to prep them for use? Something about predictable response when keying the tyre in to the road!

I've heard Repsol Honda use B&Q sandpaper?

[Mastodon2]

WaferThinHam said:

Baryonyx said:

Don't some people scrub their chicken strips with wet and dry to prep them for use? Something about predictable response when keying the tyre in to the road!

I've heard Repsol Honda use B&Q sandpaper?

I did hear about wet and dry to get the releasing compound off, but when riding does the job just as well I thought "fk this", and went out for a ride.

The post about the Ducati, I think was in a thread about Ducati riders being posers (not the PH Ducati owners, obviously) and someone seeing a sparkling Ducati with clearly scrubbed tyres to make it look like it had been thrashed. I suppose the lesson is that if you're trying to fake lean angle wear, rub the sand paper in little circles, not straight lines!

[WaferThinHam]

Mastodon2 said:

WaferThinHam said:

Baryonyx said:

Don't some people scrub their chicken strips with wet and dry to prep them for use? Something about predictable response when keying the tyre in to the road!

I've heard Repsol Honda use B&Q sandpaper?

I did hear about wet and dry to get the releasing compound off, but when riding does the job just as well I thought "fk this", and went out for a ride.

The post about the Ducati, I think was in a thread about Ducati riders being posers (not the PH Ducati owners, obviously) and someone seeing a sparkling Ducati with clearly scrubbed tyres to make it look like it had been thrashed. I suppose the lesson is that if you're trying to fake lean angle wear, rub the sand paper in little circles, not straight lines!

Contact cleaner's meant to do the trick. Never heard of people actually using sandpaper, but I wouldn't be surprised. Personally even on track when you ask a lot more of the tyre earlier, just take it a bit steady for a lap, then you're good to go.

I've found the release agent on car tyres to be a lot more slippy.

[Farrant]

Hooli said:

Works a treat when there are no gates to target fixate on & miss the bends

Haha I remember that

On topic, I hang off, mainly due to less than ideal ground clearance on my bike's part. May look like a tt but who cares? I look like a tt most of the time anyway

[SAS Tom]

I did once see a bloke at my local tyre place get some new supercorsas put on his panigale and proceed to spray brake cleaner on them and rub them with wet and dry. There was a mix of laughter and bemusement when he started by everyone else there whilst he proclaimed you get much more grip.

[Cunny DK]

Jazoli, have you got a sidestand like this ?

[macdeb]

Hanging off on public roads is naff. Makes you look a tool and slows you up.
Move around a bit by all means but hanging off? wk.

[Hooli]

WaferThinHam said:

Mastodon2 said:

WaferThinHam said:

Baryonyx said:

Don't some people scrub their chicken strips with wet and dry to prep them for use? Something about predictable response when keying the tyre in to the road!

I've heard Repsol Honda use B&Q sandpaper?

I did hear about wet and dry to get the releasing compound off, but when riding does the job just as well I thought "fk this", and went out for a ride.

The post about the Ducati, I think was in a thread about Ducati riders being posers (not the PH Ducati owners, obviously) and someone seeing a sparkling Ducati with clearly scrubbed tyres to make it look like it had been thrashed. I suppose the lesson is that if you're trying to fake lean angle wear, rub the sand paper in little circles, not straight lines!

Contact cleaner's meant to do the trick. Never heard of people actually using sandpaper, but I wouldn't be surprised. Personally even on track when you ask a lot more of the tyre earlier, just take it a bit steady for a lap, then you're good to go.

I've found the release agent on car tyres to be a lot more slippy.

I did the sandpaper thing in my early days. Not to look quick but because I threw my 14 down the road out of a junction because a brand new shiney bt021 had zero grip. When I changed to other makes of tyre I stopped as nothing else feels as dangerous when new.