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Off-topic Climbers who ride version 2; MOTORcycles 15-Dec-2008 At 11:35:12 PM mockmockmock

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ha! did you feel your foot peg kick up under your boot? You still had more angle to go. It freaked me the first time it happened at an advanced rider course. After the 4th or 5th time I was hanging out for it.

You need to remember that the only reason bikes crash is because the rider did something. A bike is more stable without the rider and it will rail much faster through a given corner faster than the rider (most likely) can.

NEVER get sucked into riding other peoples pace, it WILL hurt you.

Have you read Twist of the Wrist I or II by Keith Code? They are good reading. Don't loan it out, you won't get it back.

M9 said: ...~> although I admit to having done some initial weaving and also lapping some roundabouts, I find when my tyres are eventually stuffed they still have chicken strips!
~> The mystery to me is why the strips are wider on the rear tyre than on the front? Typical is only side whiskers on the front at end of tyre life, but probably closer to a centimetre on the rear, particularly on the left hand side.:

It's a set up thing. Trail, rake and head angles basically. Mine wears the opposite. I get my rear to the edge but my front to about 3/8". Some-one suggested it was a tyre profile difference, Michelin have a different shape to Bridgestone and different to Dunlop. I also dropped to a 65 profile front for quicker turn in. I like that feeling better. Another person suggested it was a body position thing, if you hang off blah blah blah. I can't see it because if you hang off you need to use less lean angle. But I'm sure I sit much further forward than you, so that may have something to do with it.

Ralph