How far can i lean her over?

[xjr1200basher]

Picked up a brand new GS1200 Adventure at the beginning of December.

I didn't get chance for putting some mileage on due to the snow and sub-zero temperatures, but have just had the first service at 650 miles.

I'm getting more and more used to it each time i ride it and have started to chuck her into bends and roundabouts.

So how far can i lean her over?
My old Aprilia Caponord used to grind the hero blobs on the footpegs, but i'm thinking that that may be too far on the GS?

Cheers,

Bash

 

[rockchunk]

just till the back end lets go or the front tucks

 

[Wapping]

So how far can i lean her over?

Don't know. Come back and tell us when you have found out, perhaps?

 

[LiquidLAN]

I've had mine over far enough for the cylinder heads to touch and the hand guards on a couple of occasions

 

[Fulachtfia]

Maybe wait till the roads warm up a little before you try

 

[Dahoum]

Oh.... about this far i'd say
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[david a hall]

Picked up a brand new GS1200 Adventure at the beginning of December.

I didn't get chance for putting some mileage on due to the snow and sub-zero temperatures, but have just had the first service at 650 miles.

I'm getting more and more used to it each time i ride it and have started to chuck her into bends and roundabouts.

So how far can i lean her over?
My old Aprilia Caponord used to grind the hero blobs on the footpegs, but i'm thinking that that may be too far on the GS?

Cheers,

Bash

Do you wear knee sliders? there a must on the new 1200 adv

 

[Mutley]

Buy some TKCs, things should get interesting just before the pegs touch down

 

[Yonkyo]

 

[Stevie73]

Buy some TKCs, things should get interesting just before the pegs touch down

Rode most of last year with TKC's on......regularly got outside of boot touching down

 

[chipsonfriday]

Is that you in the picture?


Amazing what you can do with Photoshop!!!

 

[DaveGSCymro]

I've had mine over far enough for the cylinder heads to touch and the hand guards on a couple of occasions

I must've ridden the same places as you

 

[mechcanico lee]

When you fall off that was to far

 

[(RIP) Miff]

On my 1200gs (non adventure)....

Side stand on lefts
Center stand on rights.

The adventure is taller, so

I am on road tyres though, not knobblies.

 

[LiquidLAN]

Rode most of last year with TKC's on......regularly got outside of boot touching down

I've got a make who ride a Ducati that used to do that a lot. Wore two pairs of boots both sides nearly through to the toes... he's eventually learned not to ride with his feet hanging off the pegs

I must've ridden the same places as you

It looks like Dahoum definately has

 

[(RIP) Kaister]

i can't believe i'm reading this thread





/wanders off to have a word with himself , while shaking head in despair

 

[bmwrover]

Is that you in the picture?


Amazing what you can do with Photoshop!!!

Nope, its my bike and I am sitting on it, no photoshop, its the real deal, but to be fair, picture had been taken during an advanced rider course, and to get the bike down that far by riding in circles is not really a great skill, me thinks.

I have saved a much more impressive picture from the web (hope the copyright owner does not mind)

 

[poulviking]

I did a stay upright course on a small gokart track.
one of the instructors on a 1200 gs put his knee down on a very slow hairpin no effort at all.
I would say it's not lean angle but tyres on the adventure, and how you do .........

 

[Old Gregg]

I thought I was 'giving it plenty' on mine. On a dry day I regularly grind my toe sliders on my Sidi's, so much so I'm on my second set. My chicken strips are around 10mm from the very edge of the tyre. Still plenty to go when I start riding again, (I've been working away from home since July and have hardly ridden it since, though I intend to use it to commute from Halifax to Dundee every week from the end of Feb! Plenty of practise time there then!)

The only way I'd get my knee down is if my elbow, shoulder and head quickly followed it!

 

[sven]

So how far can i lean her over?
My old Aprilia Caponord used to grind the hero blobs on the footpegs, but i'm thinking that that may be too far on the GS?

Cheers,

Bash

I used to have a Craponord and found the pegs touched down very easily, despite the vague handling.

My ESA equipped GS seems to handle much better (only done 58 miles so far), so I'm sure extreme lean angles will be much easier to achieve