About the same thing as your sig but a lot uglier.
I should take some pics of my chicken strips
one of 2 things
- leave somthing unpleasant in your pants
- spend alot of $
:lol
And that’s why I’ll stick to 4 wheels… I cant put that much trust into our roads.
I was just kidding, god knows what happened that day.
You typically shouldn’t be pushing yourself that hard on the streets, or even hard enough to get rid of chicken strips or drag a knee.
Most of the time it won’t be the road’s condition that does you in.
So if I do that on a 250, I’ll be safe right? :lol JK!
Actually, yes, but only because you will most likely be doing 10-15 MPH. :lol
I agree not trusting the puiblic roads part, but that should not apply to bikes only.
As a rider you have a choice NOT to drag elbow on public roads, just like you have a choice NOT to go 160 mph on public roads.
Not having chicken strip =/= having skill. If you just wanna get rid of them so when you park your bike outside Dunken Donuts you can impress people, just go to HVCC parking lot, counter lean the vuck out of the bike and do circles. My old completely stock ex250 don’t have any after I hit the track; That doesn’t mean the bike is a capable track bike nor I can ride like Ben Spies.
Now why would you bring logic into a thread like this.
Different riding styles also affect how much is left on the tire, looking at a few of the really fast guys at the trackday you could see a solid half inch of chicken strip yet they were much faster than I was.
Quite impressive to get the 250 that low though, with the shape of those thin tires I know I’d be thinking twice before riding it to the edge.
Yeah I love seeing the riders around here that think they are the man on a bike. Back tire is flat and worn to the wear bars down the center and have a 1 inch chicken stripe on the sides. Only knowing how to hold it to the bar in a straight line FTL.
Anyone around here know the ridge road, waters road and johnson road off Rt 5 in scotia? Every day coming home from work I took them. when its warm out and it hasnt rains in days… if you can ride say good by to the stripe riding those roads.
I gotta hit up some twisties :(, haven’t really done hardly any leisure riding yet this year. Back and forth to school on the highway.
= flat center on the tires. I hate that. My tires are so damn soft, I ride to work and back once and they are starting to flaten out on the center. thus taking the long way home through the twisites to keep a rounded profile!
i have some pretty good chicken strips on the R6… but thats mostly b/c I take it to work and in the mornings, its still quite cold so there is no way I’m pushing the limits of the bike on a cold tire. Then in the afternoon, its still mostly straight roads.
yeah and after all the work you did I wouldnt either. That bike looks great.
Look into the Bridgestone Battleax BT16s, they have three seperate compounds on the tread from hardest in the center to softest at the edges. I have prob almost 3500 miles on mine so far including two track days and they still have plenty of life left on em. Not to mention they grip like a bastard.
yeah I was looking at those and some other dual compound tires and got the M3’s at a great deal, and they were soft all around. I dont take it out much but when I do I would rather loose 1kmi worth of treadwear than go down again.
If I sold the motard and got street bike made for long highway rides 110% would be running a dual compound tread like the battleax’s. your def correct.
Thanks. And yea, that is exactly my fear… lol. Yea, it is fully covered by insurance, but I really dont want to have to do all the work over again if I go down… lol
It’s body placement. Not bike lean. If someone doesn’t have chicken strips as small as yours, doesn’t mean they can’t ride as fast as you. Just means they don’t lean it over as much as you. Just think about it. I can do circles in a the matter of a few parking spots in a parking lot somewhere, where I can drap “peg”, doesn’t mean I can ride good. Just means I have the balls to lean it over at some point on a clean “parking lot”. Yup, that doesn’t mean much when riding. In some instances, it just means you’re stupid for trusting the sandy parking lot.
Used to live out there (gower rd, specifically)
Need to be in the wrong place at the wrong time to be on the wrong side of the line.
I have no room to talk (guilty myself) - Im sure we both are on the same page since
after you memorize the road, comfort levels rise…that doesn’t keep the deer out of the way tho…