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yes mate i used to love the old knee scratchin'..... the trick is, get right over off yer bike, say on a roundabout, latching the back of your left knee against the seat... hang right over with your knee out.... let the bike fall right over untill your knee hits the ground.... youll find that your knee will slide really easy and its suprising how much the bike becomes "proped up on your knee".....
this is a little rough, and when you first get your knee down, youl kak it and pop straight back up.... but find a nice secluded roundabout where you can do a few laps, maintain a constant speed and make sure your tyres are warm and sticky....
once youve perfected this crude roundabout method you can try it out on the twisty's.. in a real road riding style.. dont forget to practice left handers though !
once youve got this bagged youll be going through knee sliders like theres no tomorrow.
but remember ! when your low and movin fast.... your less likley to be seen. this really is best on the track mate.
i used to use a local industrial estate in the evenings or on a sunday morning when its less busy for practacing scratchin', wheelies, stoppies and the obligitory one handed burnout doughnuts.....
my bike was a 1200 bandit tricked up with renthals, twin spots.brembo's and a Remus carbon can and all the other bits and bobs.... riding this bike was like a rhinocerous doing ballet. made for trickin'.
still, it ended up snapped it half and embeded in a golf. now i dont ride at all.
miss it like hell... but not half as much as i miss walking without a limp.
take it real ...real easy mate.
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Yip that's the way to learn Ewan, until that is you realise that most roundabouts in the Strathclyde/Lothians area have a film of diesel dopositted from Strathclydes finest bus dept or you come face to face with a pothole in mid "scrape" or even a white line. The rule's the same for bikes as cars if you want to drive like a maniac keep it for the track, todays road surfaces and traffic just aint up to the job of crazy speeds on bikes anymore.
This all puts me in mind of a conversation a few years back with the owner of two wheels in Edinburgh he had started a weeks course for anyone buying a bike from him simply because he was loosing too many customers, he lost 9 customers in a month in the days when any Tom/**** and Harry was walking in with a pocketfull of disposeable income and buying the biggest fastest brightest machines he had then taking them out thinking they were Barry Sheen and writing themselves off.
Keep Safe
