Chicken Strips

[snaponphil]

Ps.. Now got GSWC with softer tyres, can't see the rear lasting 3k, & it's starting to square off at 1k miles already..

On my GSA I fitted original Tourance on rear & EXP ? (Correct me if I'm wrong) on the front, the original EXP rear didn't last 3.5k miles.

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

A lot of male posturing on this thread

 

[Ogmios]

Classic GSer C.S.I. (Chicken Strip Investigation)

 

[RedRick Esq.]

Often depends on the tyres you have fitted !

I have PR 3 Trails on mine and very little in the way of chicken strips on the rear but the front is a different story I wouldnt want to be on the bike when using the very edges of it and i am in no way averse to spirited cornering

 

[snelly]

The only thing that would piss me off,is that I had paid good money for a bit of tyre I aint fuckin used. You will not find a Jock or A Yorkshireman with chicken strips.

 

[Deletedmemberjdcxxx]

A lot of male posturing on this thread

Don't think I've been posturing far enough to the right and left!

 

[Engineer]

Nah. I used the Bungalow



The GS doesn't have chamfered pegs

Why have you got your leg on the floor?

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

Why have you got your leg on the floor?

To hold the bike up.............silly

 

[Engineer]

To hold the bike up.............silly

Ahhhhh I see, hmmmmmm must be something wrong with his bike, mine goes around corners and doesn't fall over like in the picture.

Glad that there is a logical explanation other than a deformed left leg, which was my first thought.

 

[snelly]

Why have you got your leg on the floor?

Unlike some; because he can.

 

[Engineer]

Unlike some; because he can.

If he didn't have his leg in the way then he could lean the bike over even a lot more and get rid of his 'chicken strips' - he looks like he is trying not to use the edge of the tyre in that picture.

 

[JerseyNeil]

This is what happens to a GSA if you don't put your knee down!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM1GFUZ87q8

What do you tossers think happened here?? was it his engine bars??

Neil

 

[Engineer]

This is what happens to a GSA if you don't put your knee down!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM1GFUZ87q8

What do you tossers think happened here?? was it his engine bars??

Neil

He didn't seem to be leaning over that much - weird, maybe he was braking whilst turning?

 

[Bendy toy]

Also I have a 2007 K1200s that has NO chicken strips, it flies but the riding style & lean angles seem different, thereby maintaining the curved profile.

For a given speed and bend radius ALL bikes will lean at the same angle regardless of bike weight. A bigger bike creates more cornering force than a small bike but it also weighs more so the lean angle is the same.

Better handling bikes will lean more than poor handling bikes simply because they take the same bends faster so have to lean at larger angles.

 

[IJGser]

Its all about perspective!

When i see a GSA on road tyres its just one big chicken strip to me.



If you want to look Hard in front of your mates stick some TKCs on it and tell the of your plans to ride the road of bones

 

[Bendy toy]

Just do the road of bones anyway but on toad tyres

 

[Packer]

......What do you tossers think happened here?? was it his engine bars??

Neil

Too much power too soon.

Bendy toy, what are these toad tyres you speak of? Are they low ground pressure to protect wild life that you may run over?

 

[(RIP) Miff]

If he didn't have his leg in the way then he could lean the bike over even a lot more and get rid of his 'chicken strips' - he looks like he is trying not to use the edge of the tyre in that picture.

Nope. The pegs were scraping the road. It wouldn't lean over further.

Hanging off a bike allows you to corner faster for the same lean angle, as cornering without hanging off.
Those who claim I could lean the bike further without hanging off are talking twaddle.

 

[Giles]

He didn't seem to be leaning over that much - weird, maybe he was braking whilst turning?

He's on TKC's or the like. They're gonna give up sooner than a pure road tyre ....

 

[Giles]

You do realise that you could have gone around that corner a lot faster if you'd sat on the bike properly, don't you

I have spent years fannying about with different styles, experimenting hear and there, and of course on different bikes. And for me, I'm far far quicker on the road on my GS when I just sit on it. The minute I start faffing around with half a bum cheek I become slower. Different on a sports bike ... A slightly different style there for me, but you're right, more often than not people are slower because they faff ... Just sit on it ....