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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Neil955i on December 07, 2019, 03:01:36 PM
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Read this on a Triumph forum I belong to. It’s a comment about the joys of getting your knee down on a sports bike; I could’ve written it myself! [emoji23]:
That's a shame it's such a great feeling, which is why I miss it. Even the sound it makes is cool (dunno how to type it out - get something hard and nylon and run it over some tarmac, like the back of a plastic broom :001:). The annoying thing is I got to the stage where it honestly felt easy under the right conditions, and now I've no idea now how I ever managed it at all. It's like it was in a different lifetime! The last time I tried on my Street I had absolutely no idea how far away I was. Really weird. On the plus side, I don't fit in my leathers now so it's not really an option I have to worry about any more, lol. Lots of things like that in life now and I'm not even that old!! I'm waiting for the day I can't tie my shoe laces and have to buy slip-ons!
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Probably great fun - but not many of us have access to a closed track, with safe run-offs.
Stig
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Guess I was lucky Stig. Three or four circuits within an hour of here (including Donington Park) which run track days!
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I never managed to drag a knee although I did drag parts of most of my bikes in curves. One time I was following an open class sportbike through Deal's Gap. The rider was pushing pretty hard and it looked like he dragged his knee a few times. I passed him......on an XT350!
I don't ride like that anymore. I miss riding like that but it's probably a good thing that I have slowed down.
My 2000 XT350:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Favorites/i-Hgp3Jbz/0/0439c104/L/Picture760-L.jpg)
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One time I was following an open class sportbike through Deal's Gap. The rider was pushing pretty hard and it looked like he dragged his knee a few times.
My 2000 XT350:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Favorites/i-Hgp3Jbz/0/0439c104/L/Picture760-L.jpg)
That puts me in mind of something that happened to me a couple of years after returning to biking back in the '80's. I was following a mate of mine on his 851 Duke through some twisties on, I think, a GPz900R and admiring how far over he was leaning it. I then thought to myself, hang on a minute, if I'm keeping up then I must be....
Happy days.