Chicken Strips

[Packer]

....it been debated before http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?27714-Chicken-Strips&highlight=Chicken+strips

Use to be proud of this picture until a proper rider said the truth is in what the front looks like - I looked and together with this picture got back in my box and shut the lid...

He was being a bit disingenuous because the tyres are designed as a pair so that the back starts to slide first. If you rode to the edge of the front tyre you'd be riding off the edge of the rear. An instructor at Knockhill warned me of exactly that problem on original Tourances and strongly suggested I get my arse off the side of the comfy saddle.

 

[Bendy toy]

Hanging out of the seat gives just a bit more clearance. But whether the lap times improve is another matter

Chances are the heads on a R1200GS would be touching down before the tyres run out. A bumpy road "circuit" would have them chamfered though a smooth race track might allow a couple more degrees of lean.

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[The bigun]

Hanging out of the seat gives just a bit more clearance. But whether the lap times improve is another matter

Chances are the heads on a R1200GS would be touching down before the tyres run out. A bumpy road "circuit" would have them chamfered though a smooth race track might allow a couple more degrees of lean.

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The lap times do improve when hanging off because it allows you to get on the power earlier coming out of a bend the bike is more upright but on the road i find a small movement of body position to the inside of the bend makes the bike tip in an hold a line better i do for once agree with you that the riders who hang excessively from the bike to get there knee down actually corner slower on the road
But returning to original op question your not ever going to reprofile your squared off tyre its to late it doesn't matter and i thought chicken strips only bothered the ninja turtle Sunday morning sportsbike riders who this seems to be a macho how fast am i look till you pass em on a gsa

 

[Pukmeister]

.....a proper rider said the truth is in what the front looks like

I've managed to ride to the edge of the rear tyre, but nowhere even close to the edge of the front tyre (both original type Tourances). Respect to anyone that can, it must take a lot of confidence and/or skill.

 

[coxylaad]

So why are they making sports bikes taller with shorter wheelbases every year. look at Motogp, they are so tall the jockies that ride them cant touch the floor at all.

 

[Bendy toy]

So why are they making sports bikes taller with shorter wheelbases every year. look at Motogp, they are so tall the jockies that ride them cant touch the floor at all.

Ground clearance I guess. Feet tucked up high need the seat up high or rider's knees are so tucked up he can't move about properly. It supports my suggestion that bikes should have cable operated side stands on both side so the rider can stop feet up and small people can ride big bikes. Or powered hydraulics to quickly drop the bike down on its suspension just as Citroen did with the DS, GS, BX and CX. They had a tiny hydraulic pump so weight need not be an issue.

 

[Ex-Call Centre Chimp]

. Or powered hydraulics to quickly drop the bike down on its suspension just as Citroen did with the DS, GS, BX and CX. They had a tiny hydraulic pump so weight need not be an issue.

BMW would never do that. It would be seen as a gimmick, an unnecessary gadget & could potentially go wrong. They wouldn't go for something like that. It's never going to happen.

 

[Pukmeister]

BMW would never do that. It would be seen as a gimmick, an unnecessary gadget & could potentially go wrong. They wouldn't go for something like that. It's never going to happen.

BMW did it with ESA preload, the slowest hydraulic adjustment system known to mankind.......by the time it lowers itself you're already lying in the road.

 

[Giles]

So why are they making sports bikes taller with shorter wheelbases every year. look at Motogp, they are so tall the jockies that ride them cant touch the floor at all.

Bear in mind the whole Darwin survival of the fittest thing ...
Most successful bike racers are little people
Yeah you get the odd one out like Schwantz who looked like a daddy long legs on a bike, but nearly all the moto gp riders have evolved to be small !

 

[jetjock]

Bear in mind the whole Darwin survival of the fittest thing ...
Most successful bike racers are little people
Yeah you get the odd one out like Schwantz who looked like a daddy long legs on a bike, but nearly all the moto gp riders have evolved to be small !

What like Rossi ???

1.82m tall

 

[Ex-Call Centre Chimp]

That's Scott Redding fooked then. Might as well call it a day now.

 

[birdseye]

I reckon the very name "chicken strips" explains what its all about. Macho man attitudes. Willie waving. "you're chicken if the tyres arent worn right to the edges".

On which basis I am proud to cluck loudly. Cock a doodle do!!!!

 

[snelly]

....it been debated before http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?27714-Chicken-Strips&highlight=Chicken+strips

Use to be proud of this picture until a proper rider said the truth is in what the front looks like - I looked and together with this picture got back in my box and shut the lid...

Nicely rubbed up. A mate who we rode with in the late eighties,early nineties,had a Suzuki 1100 k, a bike a lot of the press slated for it,s instability. Mick being well over six foot and having a lot of weight forward loved his and had no problems . His style of riding suited the bike. Saying that, he rode the front so hard he wore front tyres out as quick if not quicker than rears . He was,nt much quicker than some of us but his riding style munched his tyres. Loosing chicken strips is,nt just about outright speed,more about style and aggression.

 

[Nunkie]

It,s the chicken strip comparison event . Sounds like you think you may be in with a shout at first prize. fuck what people say about your strips and ware them with pride. You would look a bigger twat polishing your arse with the tarmac trying to loose them.

Friend of mine did that a few years ago: got into the habit of grounding the footrests exiting The Campus in WGC until he overdid it one day and broke his effing neck when he hit the railings separating the two halves of the road.

Don't worry about your chicken-strips, they'll go as you get more comfortable on the bike . Take it easy and enjoy your riding !

 

[Nunkie]

I reckon the very name "chicken strips" explains what its all about. Macho man attitudes. Willie waving. "you're chicken if the tyres arent worn right to the edges".

On which basis I am proud to cluck loudly. Cock a doodle do!!!!

Yeah, me too. What bother me most is the money I spent on that unused rubber !

 

[Deletedmemberjdcxxx]

My tyre's getting a lot better now, I go round every island five times on the way to work. Car drivers really don't like it when I go round anti clockwise on the way home though.

Funny that!

 

[coxylaad]

Marco Simoncelli (RIP) was massive for a racer. there are a few of them creeping in now - leon camier, davide guiliano, loris Baz to name a few. the little guys have an adantage with acceleration and braking, but the bigger guys can move more weight around the bike.

 

[Bendy toy]

Don't worry about your chicken-strips, they'll go as you get more comfortable on the bike . Take it easy and enjoy your riding !

What surprised me about the GS was how I was using much more of the tyre without feeling that's I was going any faster than on the previous bike. A quick check on the speedo made me realise brain recalibration is needed.

I also hate all that unused rubber. Why can't we have 1/2" thick tread down the middle? And mega sticky on the sides?






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[pjm-84]

What's the general consensus on chicken strips? I seem to use a lot more front tyre then rear on my GSA (Tourace EXP tyres). The front may end up chicken less but the back will have a nice band.

 

[dern]

What's the general consensus on chicken strips? I seem to use a lot more front tyre then rear on my GSA (Tourace EXP tyres). The front may end up chicken less but the back will have a nice band.

They're an irrelevance that you traditionally use to rib your mates. They just indicate how much you're leaning your bike and whether you favour braking before a corner or as you dive to the apex and so on. If you let it bother you or try to ride past where you're comfortable in an effort to reduce them then you're being silly.