How Much More Lean Angle is Left...?

[MiamiDave]

How Much More Lean Angle is Left by relocating the stock pegs...? I mean, at what point do we run out of tire with non factory pegs...? :???:

[Jamie]

Love provocative posts!!!!

You won't run out of tyres, MiamiD. After the pegs are "naturally" abbreviated (as mine are), it's the undercarriage tubes that start ploughing the asphalt, particularly on the r/h side (as mine do). Re-route these tubes, and next it's the exhaust shields that bottom (as mine are getting into the habit of doing)...

At that time, you'll have forgotten what rear chicken strips meant in the first place. But the rear tyre will still be firmly planted on the road... and will still (I feel it) offer extra lean angle latitude. And you'll still have about two inch-wide strips on the front rubber, no matta how hard you charge.

This bike, MiamiD, has an amazing reserve of roadholding capacity/ cornering speed/ leaning angle. And it's NOT tyre-constrained.

PS. Another -tempting- reply would have been "anything between 45 and 360 deg's". :razz: :razz: :razz:

[ This message was edited by: Jamie on 2005-08-24 07:27 ]

[Aussiebikerdave]

Hey Jamie, I took to my right hand heat shield the other day with the diamond cutter. Neatly rounded off the corner that touches down all the time. Reckon I gave it about a 2" radius. The only problem with the heat shields touching down is the loud tinney noise it makes. Sometimes I'm sything through a bend just mindin my own business when out of the blue comes this noise so loud and tinney that it near scares you to death!

You dont need those sort of distractions when you and the Rocket are in total sinc and harmony just doing the business!

Davo

[MiamiDave]

Wow, impressive! I didn't think there was that much more left, when apparently there is!! Cool, post some lean pics!! Go to a track day and have it filmed, man what a sight that would be!!

[Diego]

> And you'll still have about two inch-wide strips on the front rubber, no matta how hard you charge.

You know, Jamie, I wonder how many folks have ever thought about why that is.

I hadn't considered it myself until recently. I'm a pretty conservative guy when it comes to self preservation, so I was surprised recently after a vigorous ride on the mountain to see how narrow the strips had gotten to be on the rear tire--and yet the front was no different from before. Took me a couple of minutes to realize, yeah, that's how it works.

[Jamie]

Right on, Bros. Let's get our bikes on a TRACK. Not a drag strip. Not a public Peoria Heights-type 4 a.m chase (from memory, Yamaha RD 350...). A real road race track. Take the RIII to its cornering limit, and then some. Or our limit, and then some.

I --modestly-- could actually organize such a silly thing in nearby France or Germany (tracks have been banned in Switz for over half a century following the post-war Bern Formula One collective homicide) via a couple of --wealthy-- Swiss car clubs whose Chairmen stubbornly believe that I am mad enough BUT that if I just had two more wheels on my toy I 'd be one of them. And who secretly hope that we'd just make fools out of ourselves.

What a great forum REUNION that would be!

... Downers on their way now, Jamie

[ This message was edited by: Jamie on 2005-08-24 14:42 ]