I want to get my knee down this summer

I saw Mike Hailwood back in the late seventies make his comeback at the Isle of Man TT. That guy NEVER put his knee down. The neatest rider i ever saw. You could have put a penny on the racing line and he would have hit it every time. Needless to say ,he won.

 

More like falling off my platform disco shoes.....the cause of my first broken arm quite a few years ago. Probably more years than many here have experienced in their lives.

 

Not only about dragging knees, it's about the frame too:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/q5dvbh6negy20tr/Frame Flex 2.mov?dl=0

 

Hailwood was an amazing motorsportsman but I remember, also in the late seventies, a young American named Kenny Roberts that,OMG, put his knee down. Pretty sure the late, great Barry Sheene remembered young Kenny also!

 

Certainly not on any streets around your house.

(Now let's talk about those third gear standups you've been doin just west of town!)

 

That guy was in the Walmart lot this morning dodging Winnebagoes.

 

Kids an alien. ....wait till Alex comes to motogp, little brother may be kicking some ass as well.

 

I've wasted enough time tit-distracted and pray you'll change the avatar soon to anything related to VFRs.

 

Get in line! I am praying for Practical Sportsbikes and that gravity holds on for awhile for the luvly lady..

 

Really, I'll do it if ya want.....now Rachel on a VFR, that would be the cats meow

 

More like the bee's knees IMO..

 

The farmers don't seem to mind

 

Seeing their a lot of guys that watched 2 stroke madness racing on here you probably remember Kevin Schwantz dragging knee while CROSSED.

 

I guess we could say these dudes just don't want to get their knees all dirty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0G3nPvjNYA


HD made a few of these bikes in the 1930's They were 500 CC thumpers and designated as CRC's . Not much has changed.. Super high compression ratios, long strokes, no brakes and some of them burn hot fuels.

 

In the new Cycle World they have an article about Greg Hancock..44 years young, still kicking ass and takin names.
Used to watch speedway racing at Ventura fair grounds....back in the 80's. Now that something every motorcyclist should experience atleast once

 

Speedway is coming up in the Ventura County Fair.

 

That is also the best example of "countersteering" a bike when they hit the corners.

 

4 cylinder smoker for the win! Well only one time, Roberts almost killed himself multiple times for that win. What a motor that was in road races too.

http://www.motorcyclemuseum.org/asp/classics/bike.asp?id=42

 

Yup, outlawed after that race

 

I think that quote has been sanitized by Yamaha in the interest of political correctness. KR is a very plain spoken guy and if memory serves, the original statement was blessed with at least one "colorful" adjective.

There is a Utube of him on the bike that was put up a few weeks back.

Speedway, again, if my memory banks are semi-intact. UK and Europe has parimutual betting on teams.

Maybe even OZ too.

The races are four laps.. Notice the action on the starting "gate". There are two basic variations. The "gate" is raised on a large rubber band contraption or the "gate" is an elastic band that is let loose across the track. As seen the tracks are small.. A large venue is a quarter mile oval

The engines turn aboot six grand and the HP is 60 plus on a very light chassis.