Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > How far to lean?

[Gaz 748]

1/4" on the back 1/2" on the front, it`s harder to get to edge on the front.

I go around corners slower with my knee down, it`s not much use on the road.

[900MAN]

Just measured the edges.
6-7mm on the back (190)
6mm on the front

[Glyn]

just to go against the comen veiw
i always go for a hard tyre compond e.g macadams,020's or azaro sts
i can still get my knee down with out to much of a problem
can take them right to the edge of the tyre
but getting back to the original question, for me the main reason for prefering these over a stickier sports tyre is that they will slide earlier than a sports tyre and in a more controlled maner
i can quite happily go round some of my favorite twistys and feel the feed back from both wheels and it is always very consistent
with a sticky tyre there is always the danger of them letting go of the road whitch is always going to be a lot further than my hard tyres will go, but where a hard tyre will walk a sticky one can just go out as you find it's limit

obviosly a sticky tyre is always going to be better for a person that can really ride a bike and know it's/his limits but for me on an st2 i like some thing to tell me when i'm pushing my luck

please dont all shout it's only an opinion

[dickieducati]

you can get your knee down on pretty much all bikes with all tires and you dont need to going fast or be a good rider. i can get my knee down at will but im not that quick or good. it is a very good indication of how you are cornering though. turn in speed etc etc

[Jools]

Originally Posted by dickieducati

you can get your knee down on pretty much all bikes with all tires and you dont need to going fast or be a good rider. i can get my knee down at will but im not that quick or good. it is a very good indication of how you are cornering though. turn in speed etc etc

Errrrr....I can't get my knee down at all.

On Saturday in the lakes there was a left hander that went around about 100 degrees. It was a fairly constant radius about the same as a large-ish roundabout right at the bottom of a valley. The road swooped down to the corner and back up the next hill on the exit. I arrived at the turn in point quite hot and had no option but to hang off the bike as far as I ever have done and I think that I must have leaned the bike to a greater angle than I ever have before on road or track - it felt like I was almost horizontal, hanging right off the bike and my knee still didn't touch down.

[Jon]

Originally Posted by Jools

Errrrr....I can't get my knee down at all.

On Saturday in the lakes there was a left hander that went around about 100 degrees. It was a fairly constant radius about the same as a large-ish roundabout right at the bottom of a valley. The road swooped down to the corner and back up the next hill on the exit. I arrived at the turn in point quite hot and had no option but to hang off the bike as far as I ever have done and I think that I must have leaned the bike to a greater angle than I ever have before on road or track - it felt like I was almost horizontal, hanging right off the bike and my knee still didn't touch down.

Jools your knee could of been just millimetres of the ground. Some peeps twist their hips so that the knee swings in towards the bike. If you slide you bum back all the way keeping your hips inline with the bars and your upper torso parallel with the bike, it will happen sooner than you think.

[ath748]

I must twist my hips then, cos I've still yet to touch down. And I've got no chicken strips at all!! Toes went down on some French roads last year, but no knee.

I've had to make do with rubbing up against a wall for now ;-)

Ade.