Yep, you're right. Big lean angles always look impressive, but the game plan is to get your cornering technique right so that for a given speed you're using the least possible lean angle. That means that you can go faster.
That's what a lot of the CSS techniques are all about anyway, quick turning, body position and things like 'the pick up drill' are all designed to keep you on the fattest bit of the tyre for as long as possible so you get the best grip and drive.
Having said that, tyres seem to have something weird going on with the profile sometimes. In ordinary road riding on my last set of 010's I had no chicken strips on the front tyre, and a quarter inch (6mm for you youngsters) one on the back. Changed to 207RR's and it's the other way round, none on the back, quarter inch on the front (with no other changes).
On the track it's completely different, I seem to be able to rag both my tyres right to the very edge (with those "street cred" black bogies hanging off 'em) without seeming to be at max lean.
Jools
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