So today I was riding in the mountains and there was a Harley Sportster (an Iron 883 I think) following me through some very tight turns. I waived him by on a straight and saw the impossible... the dude took a 25mph turn at 50, on a cruiser that can only lean at 32 degrees.
He did it by hanging his *** clear off so that only his thigh was on the seat. His outside foot was clear off the peg, hugging the side of the bike. His inside leg was flush tight against the bike too, so not knee dragging. I could only describe it as *** dragging, because his damn rear was barely a foot off the ground. His t-shirt was flapping like a cape and he even hit a bump while doing this, but held the corner like a pro.
I almost had to pull over because I couldn't believe what I had seen, let alone a cruiser taking a corner on a mountain road like that. To take that corner at 40mph I have to lean my bike so that the chicken strips are only a half-inch wide. Full disclosure, I don't knee drag and only mildly shift my *** over. Lately I've been practicing "kissing my mirrors", which is a road-riding leaning technique that the Sonoma Racetrack instructors taught me.
Anyway, has anyone else seen this cruiser *** dragging technique? It was unbelievable and made knee dragging look amateurish (although I know it's challenging). Dude even flashed me a thumbs up before practically jumping off the seat to throw his *** onto the floor.
To picture it, imagine the guy in the below picture hanging his posterior so far off that it's a foot off the ground. But the bike is barely leaning 32 degrees.
He did it by hanging his *** clear off so that only his thigh was on the seat. His outside foot was clear off the peg, hugging the side of the bike. His inside leg was flush tight against the bike too, so not knee dragging. I could only describe it as *** dragging, because his damn rear was barely a foot off the ground. His t-shirt was flapping like a cape and he even hit a bump while doing this, but held the corner like a pro.
I almost had to pull over because I couldn't believe what I had seen, let alone a cruiser taking a corner on a mountain road like that. To take that corner at 40mph I have to lean my bike so that the chicken strips are only a half-inch wide. Full disclosure, I don't knee drag and only mildly shift my *** over. Lately I've been practicing "kissing my mirrors", which is a road-riding leaning technique that the Sonoma Racetrack instructors taught me.
Anyway, has anyone else seen this cruiser *** dragging technique? It was unbelievable and made knee dragging look amateurish (although I know it's challenging). Dude even flashed me a thumbs up before practically jumping off the seat to throw his *** onto the floor.
To picture it, imagine the guy in the below picture hanging his posterior so far off that it's a foot off the ground. But the bike is barely leaning 32 degrees.
