Getting one's knee down ?

Please help me.

After a considerable & lengthy
apprenticeship I have enjoyed the past
decade or so riding high power
motorcycles but I have no experience
whatsoever of "getting my knee down".

A riding career that has risen from
those hazy evenings outside chip shops
on my Fizzy, through the Beckitt tuned
RD250 era and onto a succession of
semi - vertical Elsie's that post
pubescent, immature yoofs had no right
to be allowed access to.

The air cooled 550 that made me want the
750 and the very first GPz 900r in my
neighbourhood, followed by an eagerly
awaited GSXR 1100 which raised my status
to 'riding God' and began my seemingly
endless love affair with big bore
Suzuki's.

I have ridden on High streets, back
streets, country lanes, motorways, A
roads, B roads and over every hill &
Dale, but never has my knee touched the
tarmac once !

Could someone please explain to me how
placing a knee on the tarmac is
beneficial to the riding experience with
a few suggestions on how to actually
achieve it without looking like a pratt?




I thank you
Babba

 

I suspect if you've not done it yet, your safer not trying! It'll only end
in tears...



Kev

 

Pipex Text wrote

I never have either.

Then again the practice seems reserved for those with incredibly small
dicks.

 

Molly wrote

I am not so sure. It is not really a girlie thing as far as I can make
out. Both knees on the floor together for the bitches has been more my
experience.

 

:^}

Or maybe none. ;-)

 

OK, go on then.

And you can't get your kneedown. What about wheelies then?

No track?

If it has to be explained it's not for you.

BTW are you related to Steve Aucache?

 

Molly wrote

I have never seen it spelt like that before.

 

Buy this month's Superbike - there's a whole DVD devoted to this very
topic on the cover.

On the road? It's fun. It looks cool. That's about it really.

On the track it's merely a consequence of riding fast.

Don't fall off. Particularly not when being filmed.

 

Buy this month's Superbike - there's a whole DVD devoted to this very
topic on the cover.

On the road? It's fun. It looks cool. That's about it really.

On the track it's merely a consequence of riding fast.

Don't fall off. Particularly not when being filmed.

 

Have you got a copy of the DVD?

 

At risk of making a complete dick of myself, what is the correct
pronunciation of your surname?

I have you down as an "ovash"

David

 

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http://www.ukrm.net/CLUES/bikestuff/kneedown.html

 

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How can you NOT wheelie an LC?

Oooh, lots n lots of track, 20
gatrillion laps of Donnington before
track days were even heard of.
Still didn't feel the need to risk
breaking my legs though, but then
neither did some of our top road racers
of the time either !

You're right, it's not for me, just
wondered why everyone else feels the
need to do it.

endurance team) http://Team-ukrm.com

 

"Chris Bedford"
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too big and not too small and is very

prob 5am. Less traffic the better. Go

tyres. Position yourself half off the

outside of your pegs and get as

and practicing. Best go with a mate

But . . . how do you do it without
looking like a pratt?

 

It's the new black.

 

I'll stick a quid on it being "auvache".

 

Excellant, so you're now a better rider for having achieved it. In my
many years of riding knowing the limits of both the bike and myself has
been incredibly usefull.

But how does hanging off the side, with only one cheek and just the
balls of your feet on the pegs equate to a controlled manner?

GMKD & wheelies may require a mastery of control but what level of
control does it leave you with when you need to react?

Not really, the unnatural positions riders get into to 'get the knee
down' will never cease to amuse me. I liken it to the antics of the max
power Corsa brigade, patently hilarious to everyone except themselve's.

 

You don't have as far to fall when you bin it.

 

Knee down? Thats old fashioned. Its elbows now-a-days.

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