Knee down gallery...

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the_priest wrote: Sun Nov 29, 2020 2:23 pm You guys are all L plate riders I get both knees down! :mrgreen: ;)

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Couchy wrote: Sun Nov 29, 2020 7:25 am I am biased and knee down on an Africa twin with a 21” front wheel and 90 section tyre is committed....or the rider should be....it’s just too easy on sporting motorcycles with fat sticky tyres🤣🤣
I'll take lessons at Portimao and see if i can manage it on the huge Multi :thumbup:
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I’m not or never have been a knee down sort of rider. Don’t think it ever slowed me down. This is as close as it gets.
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How about oldest bike then?

1976 Yamaha RD250C.

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Its quite interesting to me how you can different people have clear styles of body position. Couchy looks the same in all his pics, as does KFB.
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I look slow.

I've been on trackdays where people I've lapped have been moved up a group because they look faster than me :)
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Irony being fast riders/drivers generally look slow cause they're smooth and unflustered :D
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue Dec 01, 2020 11:53 am Irony being fast riders/drivers generally look slow cause they're smooth and unflustered :D
That was always my excuse too :thumbup:
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Another one on the old 'Pig Iron'. Not the most stylish but still like it. Trying to find the one I have stuffing it under a new GSX-R but must be in another laptop...
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Rear tyre looks a bit suspect there!
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue Dec 01, 2020 4:05 pm Rear tyre looks a bit suspect there!
Mine? Fat bike, fat rider, low pressure SuperCorsa's......
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( OK, the knee is not quite down in that pic but it would have been 3 nanoseconds after the shutter clicked :) )
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Is that last one the hairpin at Cadwell?

That's where one of mine is... on a Green bike too.
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KungFooBob wrote: Tue Dec 01, 2020 7:55 pm Is that last one the hairpin at Cadwell?

That's where one of mine is... on a Green bike too.
Looks like it as the photographers used to be half way to Barn to get a nice wide view of the carnage
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In my younger days....

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Not really.

But these are out takes from a fastbikes magazine photoshoot BITD.

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millemille wrote: Tue Dec 01, 2020 8:35 pm But these are out takes from a fastbikes magazine photoshoot BITD.

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Love the rear plate :P :P

Probably saw that at the time as i was an avid Fast Bikes reader from issue 1 with Colin Schiller and his assorted mob of racers/psuedo journos :thumbup:
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I nearly got squashed by a tracked APC whilst lapping the Chobham roundabout that Fast Bikes used for their knee down shots, as I came round I saw the officer leaning out of the top cupola bashing the driver on the head and pointing at me! Bloody thing stood on its nose and hopped onto the roundabout whilst I tightened my line and bottom!
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