Lets see photos of your motorcycle(s)

Gary101386

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2009 HD Sporty XL1200C
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Aron

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I never took pics of my first bike, but it looks similar to this one. Mine was all white, 79 GS850g shaft driven, cafe fairing, drag bars, front lowered an inch via forks pulled up in the triple, Kerker megaphone drag exhaust.

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Here's my second bike. I miss it a lot. 94 FZR600R, everything purple I had powder coated, V&H full Super Sport exhaust (baffle removed), ignition advancer, Lockhart Phillips screen, fender eliminator

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FirstWorldProblems

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Wheelhorse93

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i think your crash bars and primary disagree with that

Na, I don't think so. If you study someone such as Lee Parks and take a few advanced rider classes, you will notice his as well as others (professionals) bodies hang a lot further off of the bike than mine is depicted here. My position is weak at best.

The idea is to have your body soak up more of the lean angle that the bike; allowing a reserve in case you happen upon a decreasing radius. I lost a friend to a decreasing radius turn...ran out of lean angle. If your pegs are already scraping, then you need to hang further off of the seat in order to gain back some reserve.

The photos above were taken towards the beginning of the class I was going through, and I can certainly point out a lot of my mistakes...that was the idea behind the photo. Unfortunately, I never was able to acquire any after I started to correct my body position on the motorcycle.

My hips should be turned further out along with my head, I should be at the very least another 8" over towards the inside of the turn, and my heel should have been up against the shifter cover with my toes pointed straight into the turn.


Here you can see me "starting to correct the situation", but my heel angle was terrible. If you take note that my behind is almost all the way off of the seat, but the hips are still rotated incorrectly which was partly prohibited by the terrible ankle/heel angle.

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This was my peg after the class

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