ok who here has chicken strips on their tyres? (bit of unused rubber on side of tyres) i just realised today that its much smaller on the right than the left, but i havnt had these tyres since new... but when i finally find somewhere good to ride it should even out, of course while keeping within speed limits <!-- s:-| --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_bike.gif" alt=":-|" title="Bike" /><!-- s:-| -->
Riding properly and safely will leave "chicken strips" - anything remotely resembling safe road speeds can be done without riding off the carcass. Read Keith Code; a sharper, more authoritative turn-in requires less lean for a given speed and curve. If you're riding so fast that you're reaching the edge of the tire - get thee to a track. Or a hospital. Either way, so long as you're off the roads.
I can use most of my rubber just around town once the tyres get a bit sticky you can lay it over around roundabouts and not exceed the speed limit <!-- s:camera: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/th_Camera.gif" alt=":camera:" title="Camera" /><!-- s:camera: -->
yeah theres a corner that i went around near home BELOW the speed limit and my foot hit the ground, that corner is prob why there uneven on the tyres
It seems to be that some riders tend to be more comfortable one way than the other. I had a lot of trouble with right hand corners when I first started riding. Probably to do with riding on the left hand side of the road (for me).
I dont like turning right on roundabouts. <!-- s:???: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_confused.gif" alt=":???:" title="Confused" /><!-- s:???: --> I've got chicken strips, but i think that if you didnt, youd either be using a bad body position and would be leaning further than necessary, or going absolutely as fast as possible the bike to go around a corner, which would be stupid on the road.
hahaha dave it appears to be the opposite for me, ill turn right better than left :\ dont know why, but it is fun to get that extra bit of lean around some corners ie bits of the road in an S shape or a roundabout. (edit: obviously without goin over the top about it)
i got my chick strips down to 5mm (ish), but couldn't get any lower. The shock would bottom out and the foot pegs would scrape the whole way through each corner. To get rid of the strips I ended up raising the back of the bike 70mm. I wouldn't recommend doing that to a road bike thou, the stearing gets a lil twichy. But for a race bike, its kinda cool.
Nah, the preload adjust didn't do much. I put in a shock out of a CBR600F3 with a 40mm extension plate. (Would have gone with an R6 shock, but the class I race in says that I'm not allowed to run fixed external reservoir :-( ) But, you can get an extra 30mm by moving 1 bolt. Look at the bottom of the shock and its mount. On the bit that connects the shock to the frame, there is a second bolt hole below the shock, you can move the shock to use that other hole, and bang, your bike sits higher in the rear.
