Elbow Down Is So Last Year Darling

[Yorick]

I had to wait for the replay to get this shot from the telly...

 

[Cheshirecat57]

Wow

 

[Nasher]

I had to wait for the replay to get this shot from the telly...

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I thought you managed that a few years ago........

Please don't laugh at me...

 

[Stealaway]

It shows how far tyre technology has come.


Easy peasy ---- if you also have balls of steel

 

[RustyRuss]

Very amusing video Yorick! Liked the sound track too! Regarding that Shoulder on the track...... WTF!!!
Don’t try this at home!

Cheers.

Russ

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[The Dotties]

Very amusing video Yorick! Liked the sound track too! Regarding that Shoulder on the track...... WTF!!!
Don’t try this at home!

Cheers.

Russ

At home IS the place to try it!
Ive just fallen off the sofa, NO injuries
As for on a bike.......maybe not.

 

[Lucky]

To show we can laugh at it ourselves too, here is evidence that Harley riders can be just as determined to get their shoulder down...

This guy will get there in a moment

 

[tonyidle]

To show we can laugh at it ourselves too, here is evidence that Harley riders can be just as determined to get their shoulder down... This guy will get there in a moment

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No the handlebar will hit first. Any wider & they'd need castors.

 

[nicholsong]

To show we can laugh at it ourselves too, here is evidence that Harley riders can be just as determined to get their shoulder down...

This guy will get there in a moment

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I hope it is not his dirty laundry in that pannier because it will soon be strewn along the road for everyone to see.

 

[Pops 1]

Just got back from a trip to Somerset on my BMW R1200gs and managed to scrape the pegs on a particularly fast bend. Scarred the out of me but still felt like a hero afterwards

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[olley]

I see he's got all his protective gear on.

 

[XxAnthxX]

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MotoGP News

The latest with 9 days to go I just got this. No mention of who got the 10000 tickets

www.motorhomefun.co.uk

 

[Stealaway]

Just got back from a trip to Somerset on my BMW R1200gs and managed to scrape the pegs on a particularly fast bend. Scarred the out of me but still felt like a hero afterwards

Yep the usual story --+ the bike easily capable of it ----- Just not you.
Welcome to my world

 

[Stoosal]

I used to ride with a match in my mouth til I burned my cheek when it struck and lit as I went around corners.....

 

[XxAnthxX]

I used to ride with a match in my mouth til I burned my cheek when it struck and lit as I went around corners.....

Yeah me too......

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[Lucky]

I see he's got all his protective gear on.

ATGALT

 

[Nasher]

Just got back from a trip to Somerset on my BMW R1200gs and managed to scrape the pegs on a particularly fast bend. Scarred the out of me but still felt like a hero afterwards

Back in the 70's Gus Kuhn production racer BMWs got banned as they had illegal modified frames - the engine had been raised to stop the cylinders grinding the tarmac

 

[Pops 1]

Back in the 70's Gus Kuhn production racer BMWs got banned as they had illegal modified frames - the engine had been raised to stop the cylinders grinding the tarmac

yes but mine is a bog standard GS with a peg height of at least 4 feet which means I must have been at a lean angle of about 15 degrees. Just saying like

 

[2657]

When I was a lad I had a James Captain superbike, AMC 198cc probably max 10 hp
I managed to regularly ground the footrest on a nice cambered shortcut that I used, on the return journey at the other end of this 100 yard shortcut it was downhill right hand from tarmac onto cobbles......I will leave it to your imagination what happened in the wet........several times

 

[The Coops]

In the days of Norton Commando Police bikes ( no blue flashing lights, a yellow flashing fog light!) Just as the M55 was built, as you come off to join the A583 they built a large roundabout.............we used to have competitions to see who could leave the largest white line off the fairing of the Police bikes until the mechanic dobbed us in as he was running out of plastic padding and Ford artic white paint to repair them ! We then got the BMW R800,s and used to get the rocker covers down! Epic !

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[pappajohn]

Only grounded the pegs once..... A BSA A10 with fixed pegs.
The peg caught a raised manhole cover and spit me off...... I was only turning into a side street a bit too quick.
Fell off the same bike after too many sherberts.... Forgot put my feet down when I stopped.
Lovely gash on my finger from the pressed steel clutch lever as it hit the tarmac.

 

[Geo]

I remember coming off when mum removed me stablisers.

 

[Scotch mist]

These red & white chevrons are often made of concrete & angled upwards , mostly designed to stop cars sliding off , very noticeable when a F1 car goes over one , when i raced i started picking up scrapes half way up my fairings, then I realised it was caused by banking to hard over the raised corners

 

[Silver-Fox]

I got my elbow down once.
Just prior to seeing my Ducati slide across the road at a very tight roundabout in Prestbury

 

[Otter Spotter]

I grounded a peg once on my KH250 just as the centre pot gave up and pushed the fuel tank into my chin, I sold it as a kit shortly after. Realised why 3 cylinder bikes weren’t reliable especially 2 strokes. I loved all my Kawasaki’s, including the K1300 which you could not ground a peg if you tried as you would have been lying on the floor well before the pegs touched.

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[tonyidle]

Anyone else talk about the hero blobs on K81s? They were the little rubber things that you see on new tyres & K81s had them right on the edge where the tread turned into sidewall. Your mates would laugh if you still had them. Another bit of interesting 'grounding' - Peter Williams took the bottom out of the Commandos clutch case at the bottom of Barregarrow. Took him a few laps though - caught it every time.