Knee Down

[jacevts]

How easy after riding a bike is it to get your knee down properly then.Can it take years to master it?

[TC]

Hit the seach button and type in Kneedown.

There is loads about it.

[Guest]

How easy after riding a bike is it to get your knee down properly then.Can it take years to master it?

 

I have made many surveyed then I will get the best tips for knee down while ride the bike. I have found that you will do naturally counter steer when turning but if you can recognize that you are doing it, You will find the bike tips into the turn a lot faster making your cornering sharper. I hope that It could be more helpful and You will easily do it as well as far.

[Mightycaz]

Go and get a copy of "A twist of the wrist 2" it will explain everything you need to know. I still have reasonably big chicken strips but my confidence ans technique improved a hell of a lot after watching that!

[pete_m_j]

Search for and download NMCU booklet called Full Control, there is a link here if you look. It is very informative on technique

[Guest philgale]

book a track day and forget to brake into one of the turns and job done....

[Guest]

I was expecting "dont do silly things on the road get on track blah blah" and you put that

[Guest]

book a track day and forget to brake into one of the turns and job done....

oh yeah

[DeeJ]

book a track day and forget to brake into one of the turns and job done....

 

I tried this the other day,

And ended up riding into the grass

[Aaron]

I find suitable roads, near my location at least, VERY hard to come by. Best book a track day. At least then you know there is nothing coming the other way.

[tryme]

is it legal to do knee downs? i mean surely youd have to be going quite fast?

[DeeJ]

is it legal to do knee downs? i mean surely youd have to be going quite fast?

 

Knee down is a form of control that allows you to assess how low you can lean the bike safely. And 15mph is fast enough to get the momentum to put your knee down, so no need for speeding

[sliderglider]

got mine down 3 months after passing test (ex moto x rider tho) but you need to got your shoulders off the side of the bike not just your arse look down the side of the fairing vid on youtube that taught me went straight out and did after watchingver informative.

[Julesholling]

Took me a bit of finding ( a few duff links around) but managed to download the 'Full Control' brochure that was mentioned in one of the earlier posts from the link below

http://www.fema-online.eu/uploads/documents/vehicle%20aspects/Full%20Control_low%20res.pdf

[techno]

Or you could have no real interest in getting your knee down like me, tbh dont think my legs bend that way and its no quicker on the roads doing it either, but if its something you want to do its all about practice and confidence like most other things am sure!

[Guest]

Or you could have no real interest in getting your knee down like me, tbh dont think my legs bend that way and its no quicker on the roads doing it either, but if its something you want to do its all about practice and confidence like most other things am sure!

I'm glad someone else said that!

i wanna try knee down but i'm not really bothered about dedicating my riding to it

[griff488]

Personally i think you have to be REALLY careful getting your knee down on the road. Theres so many more variables than on a track. Surface changes, potholes, gravel and oncoming vehicles to name just a few.

Book a track day and go play being Rossi there. You can lean a bike over and lose the chicken strips perfectly well without putting your knee down.

One technique i was shown was to find a smooth quiet roundabout and practise. Get the positioning of your body right first, you'll look daft with your knee stuck out, arse hanging off the bike and bolt upright but gradually as you lean it over whilst maintaining speed you'll get your knee down. Can't remember if they mentioned what speed you needed but its not that important so long as the bikes balanced and you maintain momentum.

Bear in mind though if plod is around technically theres only so many times you're allowed to go around a roundabout before you get told off!! Think its 3 or 4 times???

First time i got my knee down wasn't planned or practised! I was on an unfamiliar road going to quick for the bend. Honestly thought i'd be picking it out of the hedge but my old RGV just gripped and round it went! Felt great but my arse still twitched like a rabbits nose!!!

[Guest]

I've managed it twice (both times on the same roundabout). Fairly new road, roundabout is a decent size, but not too big, and I had to get the bike over further than my comfort zone would allow. Leaned it over what I thought was enough, ass half off the seat, top half over past the screen, but I still had to lean it further than I was comfortable with. Once I did, touchdown. Did it again a few weeks later just to prove to myself that the first wasn't a fluke

Before I did it, it was the holy grail. Now I've managed to do it, it doesn't bother me at all now. One of them "tried it, done it" things for me.

I'd still like to do a trackday and do it tho

Andy.

[Guest philgale]

Im going elbow down this year, fingers crossed i can get it done. just need to sort body position then its a done deal

[redline]

i dont on the road, theres sod all point.

i would really really steer away from practicing on roundabouts and things, this is where overfilled lorrys tanks dump desiel, screw that. same with bus routes. Also roundabouts do sod all for corner practice since they pretty much do away with the most important parts of a corner on a bike - entry and exit!

remember its not about lean angle, the more upright you keep the bike- the more available traction so you get to gun it even harder!

if your keen for performance riding, get on the track its a no brainer, all you do is lean and stick your knee out...you do need to hang off the bike a little.

[redline]

actually it depends, do you want to go fast or do you want to get your knee down, because the answer is different depending on that!

[790Bonneville]

Yes all very impressive and manly getting the knee down.. now... wake me up when someone get 2 knees down!

[bex]

Yes all very impressive and manly getting the knee down.. now... wake me up when someone get 2 knees down!

 

i've had both knees down, unfortunately it also included arse head and the rest following lol

what is the interest in getting your knee down, have you passed your test yet? wouldnt it be better to learn how to ride safely and smoothly rather than getting your knee down being the reason you ride, cos if that is why you want to then i fear you are going to have a short bike career.

its easy to go into a corner, hit brakes hard and late, cock it up and have to get round somehow, which may result in you getting your knee down, but then to get going again you will just end up hammering the throttle. thus increasing tyre wear. that kind of riding can be expensive on rubber and if it goes wrong it could go horribly wrong.

plus you dont need speed to get your knee down, or a big bike, you just need to understand gyroscopics, how the bike forces work and then you could do that in a carpark on a push bike if your that desperate.

honestly do not see the attraction of it its either a man thing or i am getting old lol

[mealexme]

been trying to do it recently. There are a few decent, safe place to do it round here. Not acheived it yet, but I wasnt really trying that hard, I spent most of the day trying to find somewhere quiet lol

Apparently if you do it correctly it means you dont lean the bike as far in the wet, so it should be safer if anything. Although saying that, I wouldnt recommend getting knee down in the wet...

[790Bonneville]

Ah Bex...glad you got knees back up again. I think it is a man thing this knee down stuff, I think maybe they think women watchers will see it and want to have their babies.