Chicken strips and tyre size
Discussion
legzr1 said:
You're at the edge of your tyre, banked right over naturally, on your favourite smooth B road bend.
Everything is great.
Then you need to tighten your line for whatever reason.
What then?
I think you need to give a realistic reason for having to tighten your line. To be at an extreme lean angle and safe you would have to be on a clear bend, no oncoming traffic, good road surface etc. It is precisely because there are no reasons for a change in line that you could lean over further. Everything is great.
Then you need to tighten your line for whatever reason.
What then?
Secondly even if you are lent over enough to eliminate your chicken strips that doesn't mean that you are at maximum lean.
moanthebairns said:
Who really "decks" it though.
I mean really. Who on the road goes in at track lean angels on a piece of road that is 1/3 the width of the narrowest UK track.
What with bumps, grit, cars, pot holes, drains, s
t surface. You'd have to be a Bullst merchant or living on borrowed time.
Exactly, hence on the road it doesnt really matter what you ride, pretty much most bikes are as quick at covering ground if you want them to be. On the roads, you really need some exceptionally good conditions to start to scratch the surface of what a sportsbike can really doI mean really. Who on the road goes in at track lean angels on a piece of road that is 1/3 the width of the narrowest UK track.
What with bumps, grit, cars, pot holes, drains, s
t surface. You'd have to be a Bullst merchant or living on borrowed time. moanthebairns said:
Who really "decks" it though.
I mean really. Who on the road goes in at track lean angels on a piece of road that is 1/3 the width of the narrowest UK track.
What with bumps, grit, cars, pot holes, drains, st surface. You'd have to be a Bullst merchant or living on borrowed time.
Just because you don't (and incidentally I most certainly don't either) doesn't mean that some people can't do it safely. You don't need to have big angles of lean on the road to make swift progress (you probably go fastest by minimising the time the bike is lent over). Wheeling is 100% pointless (and less safe than remaining on two wheels). Should people stop that as well?I mean really. Who on the road goes in at track lean angels on a piece of road that is 1/3 the width of the narrowest UK track.
What with bumps, grit, cars, pot holes, drains, s
t surface. You'd have to be a Bullst merchant or living on borrowed time. Esceptico said:
moanthebairns said:
Who really "decks" it though.
I mean really. Who on the road goes in at track lean angels on a piece of road that is 1/3 the width of the narrowest UK track.
What with bumps, grit, cars, pot holes, drains, st surface. You'd have to be a Bullst merchant or living on borrowed time.
Just because you don't (and incidentally I most certainly don't either) doesn't mean that some people can't do it safely. You don't need to have big angles of lean on the road to make swift progress (you probably go fastest by minimising the time the bike is lent over). Wheeling is 100% pointless (and less safe than remaining on two wheels). Should people stop that as well?I mean really. Who on the road goes in at track lean angels on a piece of road that is 1/3 the width of the narrowest UK track.
What with bumps, grit, cars, pot holes, drains, s
t surface. You'd have to be a Bullst merchant or living on borrowed time. 
It's been a while since we had a thread of "I tried to get my knee down in a quiet industrial estate and binned it"
Who had the cbr f. I remember him doing it.
neelyp said:
Mr OCD said:
Who is faster?
The guy at 20 degrees lean doing 100mph into a bend...
... Or the guy at 40 degrees lean at 100mph into the same bend?
Trick question, they're both doing 100mph.The guy at 20 degrees lean doing 100mph into a bend...
... Or the guy at 40 degrees lean at 100mph into the same bend?
LoonR1 said:
neelyp said:
Mr OCD said:
Who is faster?
The guy at 20 degrees lean doing 100mph into a bend...
... Or the guy at 40 degrees lean at 100mph into the same bend?
Trick question, they're both doing 100mph.The guy at 20 degrees lean doing 100mph into a bend...
... Or the guy at 40 degrees lean at 100mph into the same bend?
The one at 20 degrees is liable to be hanging off his bike to get on the power sooner, I agree.
Mr OCD said:
Who is faster?
The guy at 20 degrees lean doing 100mph into a bend...
... Or the guy at 40 degrees lean at 100mph into the same bend?
Just a thought but perhaps the guy at 40 degrees of lean needs that because he is doing 120mph. I know that's not what you said but maybe someone has used all his tyre going round a bend because he is carrying more speed? The guy at 20 degrees lean doing 100mph into a bend...
... Or the guy at 40 degrees lean at 100mph into the same bend?
I think that it comes down to tyre shape.
On my last bike I had no chicken strips - the tyres were worn evenly right to the very edge.
On my current steed, I'm sure that I corner considerably faster yet I still have persistent 1/2" chicken strips even after "ear'oling" it.
Go figure, as they say.
On my last bike I had no chicken strips - the tyres were worn evenly right to the very edge.
On my current steed, I'm sure that I corner considerably faster yet I still have persistent 1/2" chicken strips even after "ear'oling" it.
Go figure, as they say.
LoonR1 said:
They're both doing 100 INTO the corner. If we follow it through logically then the quicker one through the corner is the one who holds their speed longer and gets back on the throttle quickest. Logic would suggest the one at 20 degrees would do that easier than the one at 40 degrees.
Exactly my point. LoonR1 said:
They're both doing 100 INTO the corner. If we follow it through logically then the quicker one through the corner is the one who holds their speed longer and gets back on the throttle quickest. Logic would suggest the one at 20 degrees would do that easier than the one at 40 degrees.
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