Fear of chicken strips... - Page 2

After riding at the track I can say that I would not try leaning as far as I did on the track if I was on the street. The track as a crap load more grip. The track is like double sided sticky tape compared to the road which is like freaken slick as a glass surface. 

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ORIGINAL: Repsol1

I have never had them....... Well until I moved to Michigan? I would just enjoy your riding and not worry about what other people think.

 
 
Never Huh.

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ORIGINAL: Blue Fox

I think a lot of people on here are confusing the lack of chicken strips with speeding and/or reckless riding on the streets........which is far from the truth. You can easily, full lean your bike at 30 mph and not know you are on the edge of your tires. You can even knee drag your bike under 30 mph as well (which I learned how to do at the superbike school in Laguna Seca).

So what I'm really trying to get at is that not all people who are "chicken strip-less" are "riding too aggressively" for the streets, they just lean the bike over more in the corners, regardless of speed.

In fact, I actually believe that taking your bike to that extreme at a lower speed (like evasive maneuver practice in a vacant parking lot) is beneficial to a rider, because when a rider does get into a situation where he/she goes too hot into a corner, they'll know what it feels like to be on the edge of the tires, and lets the rider know much much or less traction they have left. I'm not saying go out and knee drag your neighborhood at 80mph, but at about 25 mph, you can whip that bike around a vacant parking lot practicing low-speed emergency maneuver's, and the majority of the time you'll be leaning the bike to the edge.

You get my point 100%!

I am just afraid of chickens

well if you go ride with some experenced riders they can wacth you and give you some pointers, who knows you may be just one change to your form away to getting rid of them. twice i have ridin my friends bikes literally around the block and gotten ride of the chicken strips on there bikes... but that is because i have had some good teachers.

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ORIGINAL: Hatebreed

well if you go ride with some experenced riders they can wacth you and give you some pointers, who knows you may be just one change to your form away to getting rid of them. twice i have ridin my friends bikes literally around the block and gotten ride of the chicken strips on there bikes... but that is because i have had some good teachers.

I rode with my dad all the time when I first started riding(well I still do), and he gave me some good advice, he has a harley ultra classic...and he would fly through the turns with my mom on the back and I would always have to ctach up after the turns.....I was like wtf?? never saw a big ass harley lean so far before....he finally got behind me and gave me some pointers, and I am ALOT better in the corners now. Even let him ride my bike(hes always been a harley guy) and he said he actually liked it!

One thing you will notice is as time goes by, you get more comfortable on your bike and youll be leaning even more then you realize...my chicken strips are still there, think I still have 1/2" left but I dont worry about it, I ride becuase I like to ride, not for the show.

I'm not sure how it happened, but I still had chicken strips on my F3 even after dragging my knee at the track. Now I have my 1000 and i have no chicken strips, and we don't have a track anymore . I guess the profile of the tire matters alot when it comes to having strips or not.