Will a "leanometer" lead to crashes?
Discussion
Took my S 1000 R for its first proper service yesterday. Rather than twiddle my fingers whilst they did the work I took out their RR demonstrator. 3 hours later I returned with a big grin on my face to find they had finished the service a while back. Oops!
The RR shows the angle of lean you have achieved on each ride (I assume it resets each time you turn the bike on). Can't help wondering that if I had an RR I would be tempted to try to get the bike over lower and lower to register bigger lean angles (until the inevitable happened). Anyone with an RR or bike with similar gadget been egged on to go lower than they normally would?
RR was lovely but it is nuts as a road bike. Reduced to riding around in second to try to get near the power band but 90 equates to just 8000 revs - only just over half the available revs. Great if you are a professional at the TT but for mere mortals on roads with other traffic it makes it difficult to access the performance available. Perhaps I should have been in first but that just feels wrong.
The RR shows the angle of lean you have achieved on each ride (I assume it resets each time you turn the bike on). Can't help wondering that if I had an RR I would be tempted to try to get the bike over lower and lower to register bigger lean angles (until the inevitable happened). Anyone with an RR or bike with similar gadget been egged on to go lower than they normally would?
RR was lovely but it is nuts as a road bike. Reduced to riding around in second to try to get near the power band but 90 equates to just 8000 revs - only just over half the available revs. Great if you are a professional at the TT but for mere mortals on roads with other traffic it makes it difficult to access the performance available. Perhaps I should have been in first but that just feels wrong.
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