knee down at last!

[Squashed_Fly]

I don't care if anyone says its not important, the feeling when I finally did it was incredible!

[Mitch9128]

I once got my knee down...closely followed by my thigh/elbow/shoulder and head...ouch.

Congratulations

[Nooj]

Never done it. But then I've never tried. One of my mates tried to teach someone to get their knee down, he fell off and broke his collar bone, oh how we laughed!

[Sean.C]

Well done , feels good don't it [smiley=thumbsup.gif] [smiley=thumbsup.gif] [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

[wiltshire builders]

Bet your first reaction was to pull it back up again!

[Mark_Able]

Had an instructor who was a bit of a nob, and was always bragging about getting his knee down (strange, seeing as he didn't have any knee-sliders). Then one day he turned up at work with a brand spanking new pair of yellow knee-sliders. At lunchtime, he disappeared off for about 20 minutes. Came back, finished off the day with the pupils, then asked me how I got my knee down. I explained, but that wasn't good enough. We had to go to the closest roundabout for a demonstration. After following him round for a few circuits, it became clear that:-
a. He wasn't hanging off enough,
b. He was in too low a gear, so the engine was too revvy.

He asked to follow me round whilst I demonstrated. After about the third circuit of said roundabout, I came across him lying in the road with a ZX6R lying on top of him, shouting for me to lift the bike off of him. I never heard anymore knee-down stories after that... ;D

[redken1]

Had a few "Knees down in my time, but I prefer a good "Knees up"
;D

[Squashed_Fly]

I came across him lying in the road with a ZX6R lying on top of him, shouting for me to lift the bike off of him. I never heard anymore knee-down stories after that... ;D

Thankfully that didn't happen to me! But then the instruction about hanging off correctly at Ron Haslam helped no end as I could feel the bike was more upright when I was off the bike properly.

Other good thing it's taught me is that even when I'm in the corner, I can always countersteer again for more lean. Got so used to countersteering to get into the bend, but there's been a few moments still when I wasn't sure if I'd get round! While learning to get my knee down, I had to do it again to get the lean angle that tiny bit extra.

First time down was a bit of a shock, but then as the confidence grew, I could plant it a bt more firmly down. Just got to wait for more sunny days now!

It's not big, it's not clever. But it was bloody good fun with a whopper of a grin factor!

[Scaredy_Cat]

Mission accomplished ;D

What's next on the 'things to do before I die' list?

[Ryan]

Nice one