I've been looking all over the net. I enjoy researching riding techniques and ways to improve my riding, but not necisarily more agressively.
I already hit the curves on cruisers at 60+ mph, wich is more than I should be. Indeed sometimes you do scrape a peg, footboard, or in my case it's usualy my boot heel. TO ME if something is scraping the pavement that is a warning you should tone it down a tad. I lvoe to ride and if I am hurt or my bike is broken, I cant ride at all. So for me conservative riding is better than not riding at all.
I know that sportbike riders hang off a bit, using thier bodywieght to drag thier bikes through a turn thus keeping the bike itself more upright. I have not seen any references to non sport bike riders utulizing this technique.
Understand I am not talking about knee dragging but rather keeping your tail on the seat and shifting your shoulders thereby leaning your body the way you are going. I generaly just remain as one unit with the bike, and from observation, so do my friends.
It would seem that if this does work that way, getting into the habbit would give cruisers more ground clearence when hitting the backroads and drag bits against the pavement less often?
Here's a vid of a guy knee dragging on a rebel 250 just because I thought it was neat.
YouTube - Draggin' Knee on The Rebel
Again my question is about the technique of leaning your body by shifting your shoulders to one side to hang off. Not knee dragging on a cruiser.
