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just heard two bikers talking at work and heard this quote, thought i'd share it with you all as i thought it was a brilliant comment!

Chicken strips are all about bravado, As is getting your knee down... You don't need to do either to be fast!

exactly! well spoken!

If your tyres aren't scrubbed to the edges, then you're not using your bike's full potential.

Therefore the 'bravado' is that you've bought a sportsbike to try and look good, when in actual fact any old cruiser would stretch you to your limits.

If a bike is transport, I'd deffo get a cruiser every time.

In fact I probably will be getting one soon.

An old Jap v-twin, maybe a Guzzi.

Past experience tells me you need a sportsbike as well tho.

a bike is a bike wether you want to get your knee down is personal preference, me i'd crap myself.

gubbs wrote:An old Jap v-twin, maybe a Guzzi.

Isnt Guzzi italian??

Moto Guzzi 100% italian...i think

Jamz wrote:If your tyres aren't scrubbed to the edges, then you're not using your bike's full potential.

You say that but have you ever tried following a copper. they have chicken strips an inch wide but they are fast as!!!! and mostly they are on pan europeans!!
You don't need your knee down to go fast.
I have no strips on the front tyre and about 1 cm on the back, thats as far as i go before the bike feels like its gonna have a fit, i've had the toe sliders down often too but i'm not overly fussed about it now. its good fun and all but i'd rather get round the roundabout than bin my bike for 1cm of rubber. i'll still get there fast.

if your getting your toes down and your peg isent tutching then you need to move you toes onto the peg more

Coppers are fast but its more down to taking a good line though the bend and using the power of the bike more

An experianced rider on a blade ect will woop there buts

That also means they could be going a lot faster!

You don't have to go fast to get your knees down anyway - I regularly do it at under 30mph! It's just about having the confidence to lean the bike over, and the body positioning to touch down.