Knee Down or Not Knee Down

[playerone]

http://goo.gl/maps/7tpqa doesn't get any better

[Kev L]

That's my kind of mid life crisis Kev

Glad to see you are as tight as me and flip them over to wear out both sides

Be rude not to!

[lloydie]

Those roundabouts outside Gala are the perfect size for it, loads of road width if you overcook it and run wide, persevere and you'll do it there

When I first started reading your post I thought you were starting to take the piss about Gala Bingo! Then I realised you were talking about the place ooop North.

Me too ha ha

[Troutman]

http://goo.gl/maps/7tpqa doesn't get any better

That's the middle one, about 1/2mile between each one and on an early Sunday morning totally empty.

[playerone]

http://goo.gl/maps/7tpqa doesn't get any better

That's the middle one, about 1/2mile between each one and on an early Sunday morning totally empty.

I'm from up that way, know them very well come up to Kelso once a month to see the kids

[darkember]

http://goo.gl/maps/7tpqa doesn't get any better

Well i'm not going all that way just to put my knee down. I'm sure Cwmbran will have something to offer

[playerone]

Well i'm not going all that way just to put my knee down. I'm sure Cwmbran will have something to offer

how about here http://goo.gl/maps/2hJ9o
nice and secluded and rarely any traffic

[darkember]

Well i'm not going all that way just to put my knee down. I'm sure Cwmbran will have something to offer

how about here http://goo.gl/maps/2hJ9o
nice and secluded and rarely any traffic

Spot on m8 know where that is near the LG factory & as said dead to traffic

[playerone]

a mate on that roundabout at weekend, he's got a thing about trying to get his elbow down now

[Troutman]

Not his first time me thinks!

[Miztaziggy]

Just to prove my point about body position (and any excuse to post more pictures ), these photos are from Donington. My brother is really struggling to get his knee down at the moment. We are very similar speed round the track and through the corners, but on the same corner, ill be scraping my knees and he isn't. You can see here below that the difference is body position, see how his head and shoulders are to the bike side of the red line through the front tyre and centre of the bike? I have mine off to the road side so that it pushes your knee out a lot further.

Also you can see me and my bro in that pic in my signature, although he is a little bit further round the corner than me, his lean angle isn't that much less than mine, but his knee is miles away.

[Bananaman]

excellent pics there!
shows it very well

[Jamoi]

excellent pics there!
shows it very well

+1 brill pics

Your bro is going to be well chuffed you've shared a load of pics of him not getting his knee down!

Hope you both had fun, I'd like to get one in before the year is out.

[Troutman]

When you see it like that in such fantastic clarity(and I'm not being sarky) it really shows how to do it, because your brother's bike is actually the same angle as yours give or take a degree or two.
What about lap times? And have you ever taken the Firestorm to the track?

[Miztaziggy]

excellent pics there!
shows it very well

Your bro is going to be well chuffed you've shared a load of pics of him not getting his knee down!

Hope you both had fun, I'd like to get one in before the year is out.

Lol nah, he won't be bothered. And yea, excellent fun, just really sad we have no more this year

When you see it like that in such fantastic clarity(and I'm not being sarky) it really shows how to do it, because your brother's bike is actually the same angle as yours give or take a degree or two.
What about lap times? And have you ever taken the Firestorm to the track?

Yep, when we go round those hairpins we are pretty much exactly the same speed and lean angle. We were about the same on lap times too, he was slightly quicker at Cadwell, and I was slightly quicker at Donington, but only by a second or two.

Never took my Firestorm to the track, I only started doing track days this year and I sold my Storm before that