Cool pic but...Chin Strap fail! :eek1

I hope she doesn't do that too much.

http://photos1.blogger.com/img/55/3348/400/IMG_0344.jpg

That's gonna hurt in the morning!

Wow..how that did not highside him is amazing. He left quite a nice blackie too.

Good job on getting thread back on track. :thumb

[QUOTE=high dangler;17555397]Is it Jaro Saaranen?


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Looks like the Gap is more or less closed for the season, but Mulholand is open!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rnickeymouse/5188898024/" title="crash by rnickeymouse, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4126/5188898024_9f56d60240.jpg" width="500" height="281" alt="crash"></a>

Since there are a number of 2012 vehicles being sold that only have red lenses on the back, I doubt that red turn signals are illegal anywhere in the US.

Chin strap!? Like that's gonna make a difference with a tee shirt, and Mr. Dress shirt...


WTF is it with cruiser riders and not wearing gear? Damn, I know the Crotch-rocket guy's arent exactly batting a thousand here, but every once and a while you see one...

Almost every Adventure rider and Supermoto guy is dressed...


What is the mentality? Buy American and we don't stinking crash! (?)

R1 body slam off the top rope! SWEET!


(it's all I got...)

But if a BMW rider owns a KTM, isn't he really a KTM rider who owns a BMW?

I don't always own more than one motorcycle...
But when I do, I'm still a Moto Guzzi man.
Stay thirsty my friends!

[QUOTE=O.C.F.RIDER;17555534]You're right of course, the rider in the foto isn't Jarno Saarinen, although he is said to have started this 'hanging off' style. There is some footage about him on y tube, great rider. Who is the rider in the foto?

I love the way he protected the paint and chrome.

right? argument over.
hey man, i mean like everybody KNOWS that counter leaning is a critical part of counter steering- both of which (along with ABS) are essential to making it safely thru ANY turn on a motorcycle. :lol3 :evil :rofl

sheesh. get with it people!

:hide

Little dude in the back looks a bit dehydrated...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g0PT-G8uCa...0/img_1681.jpg

Note the twat suit.
I say BMW rider who owns a KTM.

That bike is on the sidestand. He's just mounting it with a sweet-ass flying kick kung fu flair! :clap

Given the choice, I'd much rather have a bad crash in a tee shirt and a securely fastened helmet than in an armored jacket with my chinstrap unfastened.

The primary risks from not having a jacket are abrasion injuries and broken bones. Yeah, those are awful, but they generally don't kill people or ruin lives.

If your helmet comes off you're looking at things like paralysis, brain damage, serious facial deformities, and death. These things are front page bad news.

So yes, I expect that having her chin strap fastened could very easily "make a difference" in the consequences of a crash regardless of whatever else she's wearing.

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Paul Smart.
The pic is from 1968
He IS the man that started today's style of hanging off.

Chris

I heard John Cooper was the first to hang off.

http://www.blondeel.be/News_Article_-_JOHN_COOPER1.jpg

I'd say that chances are we'll never know for sure who was the first.

He was racing the same year's as Saarinen, being in gp's in '70-72, so who can say, egg or the chicken:huh

He was personally consulted at the dealer for that chrome. He feels attached to it.

Skin grows back. Wal-Mart sells more jeans.

Yeah, right after the introduction to motorcycles and how to ride course.

"Well, now, ya see... Thisy here's yer front brake, relax you'll never need it... Thisy here's yer throttle, or "wargbl wargbl warglb" maker... That there's yer rear brake, and thisy here's yer gear shifter... Oh, and most important of all! These are yer highway pegs."

Pats new expert rider on the back "Now yer ready to ride, Hoss"

New rider: "Pft! I already knew all that"


lol, but you forgot "chicks dig scars"

I have a polo shirt, but I don't ride a pony.

Does KTM make jackets or do they focus all of their energy on making high performance motorcycles? :huh

Oh hell yes :bert

http://www.ktmcyclehutt.com/ktm-part...=&fitment=Mens

Well, I follow the R1 in the helicopter, to lure it way from the curves, then Roy comes along in the Lockheed Stahfighter and attacks it with air-to-air missiles...

Looks more like a hangover than a hangoff :lol3:lol3:lol3

the Shear Mass of that Ass holding the bike down...

How come that big orange thing by your foot doesn't have a white "m" on it?

MMMmmmm Chocolate:lol3

Good lord, someone needs to add some rear pre-load.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LxZ4Mi3rR3...0/img_5713.jpg





.............might I suggest that the young lady should be SEVERELY spanked for risking her pretty neck in such a reckless manner. :evil

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Must be a dirt track thing.


:clap:clap:clap

+1

Or take dinner and the 24 pack out of the panniers.


Thank you for saying what I was thinking.

http://davedragon.rilysi.com/2006/09/trips.html

Pfft. Poser...




















:lol3

An acquaintance of mine showed up for a day trip from LV to Death Valley and back dressed like this...

http://dolomoto.smugmug.com/Other/HN...5_kNKGe-XL.jpg

That's just what he wore. He'd never ridden a motorcycle before and got the Rocker C 'cause he liked it. He kept it less than a year and made someone a good deal on it.

:norton

Did he decide not to ride anymore or just not to ride that particular style of bike?

But in my defense, I've never posted on Chukker.com either! :lol3

That is an abomination of a bike....gaaack!

I've ridden thousands of miles like that, except no helmet...to each their own...risk...

Yup, looks pretty low. I had been riding the Gravelhala and backed the pre-load off a little too much once back on the black top.

this dude's entire outfit is AMAZING, i mean like EVERYTHING matches. :eek1
wow, he obviously dresses himself, maybe doesn't even live at home anymore.... :clap
the way his gloves coordinate with that chin thingy on the helmet just KILLS me.
"that's just what he wore"- no shit, like he didn't even TRY to do that.
it came naturally, same as that suave-ass pose!

THANKS for posting this pic. made my f*cking day, man.

That's one hell of a place to stop and work on your bike.:D

hey this cat can stand to lose a few pounds anyway... OK maybe he's not smart enough to just go on a diet, so he grinds off a couple here and there... gotta admire the *tough guy Harley rider* attitude if nothin else, man...

oh wait....

:rofl

And not a turtle shell "skid lid" in sight... What a wuss... Way to be rep-re-Zentin!

That cruiser sure has an interesting line into that corner.

Slow and steady; he doesn't want to be cannibalized on the internet :thumb

Oh, and the pup on the red sport bike is having fun!

Yup, total fail, look at the terrible body position of that dog.

I wanna see the ones after that. Can't be a pretty dismount....

Gotta love Beto....he just posts the pictures, adds no commentary, and just sits back and watches the frenzy...likes sharks to chum. :lol3

They used a new formula to paint the double yellow line. It causes riders to fall off if they cross it.

That will teach those hooligans who disregard the double yellow.

:lol3

Doug... you got it... :lurk

Obviously a dirt-tracker.

Hang off fail?

Started seeing the trend. :D Happy Holidays bud.

he's leaning the wrong way!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS to you and all inmates here :freaky

ha ha...you quoted it before I fixed my typo. :lol3

Wonders of the interwebs... :wink:

Izzat a stoppie??? :norton

Anti Armour-All comercial.

"We all told chuck, Do NOT Armour-all the seat" But Chuck didn't listen...

Fixed and yes it is. :D

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He was hanging out so much he over steered the corner and crossed the double yellow.

Not the guy checking the tire pressure but the other dude with the headlight out. Stoppie?

I have seen the pic before and several people told me that the guy 'saved' it. I yelled "BS" and asked for proof. None has been forthcoming so far?

picking up the quarter the guy heading north dropped :lol3:rofl

If that guy "saved it", it would only be in the same context that the U.S. Army famously claimed that they saved the Vietnamese village of Ben Tre from being overrun by the Communists... by leveling it with artillery fire and air strikes! :lol3

Yes! Yes! Let's all have a spanking...

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Fail! not near enough starch in his sunday go to church...umm I mean badazz riding shirt :lol3

sorry dude... But this'll have to do... Since I don't have a way to get video.

Not Killboy, what's a "track day", and filmed in front of a live studio chicken, on a dirty dingy and not even used parking lot...



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My old tire :lol3

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And after that, the oral sex!

Peter Arnett... A bunch of people believe he made up that quote... :deal

Who cares if it's accurate?

When a prominent international journalist like Peetah Ahrrnet reports live from the heart of a combat zone (or perhaps the bar of the Hotel Intercontinental) you simply accept it without question.

I'll bet you don't even trust Dan Rather!

By the way, what was the frequency Kenneth?

It would have been nice if you placed a couple of orange cones to mark the spot where the SUV would be stopped.

Just sayin... :lol3

:photog

Jim :brow

Though I do ride a Guzzi, I'm not really all that old, and I'm not trying to figure out the younger generation!

:lol3

you don't mean this one...........
http://i603.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/Image099.jpg
do you?
:D

Iheart.....that was a pretty weak retort....

:nah You can see the rear tire on the ground just to the right of the front tire.

yar yar...:lol3

TBT, it is EXCELLENT practice for high-siding. I had a car pull out in front of me about a week ago. Got on the brakes and the back came around. No sweat tho b/c it was familiar territory.

Practicing, I've almost had it get away about 3 times... Just held on and saved it. And a few while just out and goofing off.

One was so violent my foot came off the peg. Just kept counter-steering and layed it further down... When it caught it just stood up...

Prolly gave the car ahead looking at me a heart attack tho.

This is incorrect. Hanging off the bike decreases the bike's lean angle and the traction demands on the tire. Even if you aren't dragging hard parts, decreasing the amount of traction you're using frees up traction, which might enable a rider to make direction or speed changes while leaned over that would otherwise cause a crash.

It's also a good thing to practice correct form so it becomes muscle memory when you need it.

TL;DR: hanging off increases available traction, which enables evasive maneuvers. Also, it's good practice.

+10

Round 2 begins...

Hanging off does not decrease traction demands on the tire. For a given speed and turn radius the lateral forces are the same regardless of the lean angle of the bike. Depending on your tires profile you may or may not get a little more rubber on the road by hanging off.

This is not to say that hanging off or shifting weight to the inside does not have other benefits. The biggest benefit is increased clearance. For bikes with limited cornering clearance hanging off will help prevent parts from dragging. On a modern sport bike with good cornering clearance it will provide an extra margin of clearance. Hanging off also decreases steering effort.

Just a guess here but hanging off probably increases your chances of a ticket just because you will look like you are going faster. I've come around corners on many occasions while going well above the limit only to see a LEO sitting there. I have mostly been ignored.....probably because I was sitting upright and riding a quiet bike.

I have owned many bikes. On some I found that hanging off allowed me to go significantly faster (FJ1100, EX500, Venture 1100, Super 8 150). My SV650 seemed easier to ride fast if I didn't hang off. On my dual sports it doesn't seem to make much difference although I do sometime shift my weight a little to prevent hard parts from dragging.

So you are saying that assuming the steering is not an issue, the only reason for hanging off is to avoid dragging parts. Therefore, if you are not going to drag parts, there is no point in hanging off at all - yes?

I'm not a big hanger offer, but I'm not a fast rider either.

In my experience, the biggest factors in going fast on a curvy road are rider skill, knowledge of the road and confidence. If you are worried about running out of clearance, you won't have as much confidence. I have dragged hard parts on every bike I have owned except for pure dirt bikes. Second, at least for me, if it takes a lot of effort to steer the bike, confidence will go down.

As an example. My FJ100 had limited cornering clearance and heavy steering. Hanging off was essential to going fast.

My SV650 on the other hand just felt better if I didn't hang off although I did occasionally scrape the pegs.

I don't normally hang off anymore although I will shift my weight slightly to the inside. I did take my Super 8 to Deals Gap and had to hang off some because it has such limited cornering clearance.

I did a California Superbike school. Someone asked Keith Code about hanging off and he said to do whatever you where comfortable with.

Bottom line is that the usefullness of hanging off really depends on the bike and the rider.

I am new to this thread can someone tell me what crashes at TOTD has to do with lean angle, hanging off or knee dragging. If I could figure out how the jack pics off of 129photos I would try and get this back on track. Holy shit wheres the Tylenol?:D:norton

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+10 on crashing form! Not too many style points for getting around that corner successfully though. Obviously he is going way faster than the bike could possibly handle that curve if it was being ridden by the late Mike Hailwood.

Interesting that he's hanging off a bit but his lean angle seems to be more than the guy who's not.... ???

1. He's going faster than the guy BEHIND him?

2. Ago is gaining on him and is coming up from behind to pass him on the inside WITHOUT hanging off?

3. He's deeper into the corner than the guy behind him?

4. If we could teleport an R6 back in time to him, he probably wouldn't hang off the thing very much at all.

Tell us about it, they simply wont shut up and have the same arguments every few pages.

Aweeee... I took away the one thing perfect little bitty baby had to tease me over. What will I do?

you would have thought it got old after the 100th time you posted it... but turns out you're as good as posting that pic as you are at telling others how to ride and how perfect you are at it.


Where's your Kryptonite at, Superwoman?

More Hanging off

http://www.google.com/url?source=img...7d6GWhjyNSR4BQ

Showing off

http://www.google.com/url?source=img...EbfxD_GJYizjyA

.

http://www.google.com/url?source=img...PJ5dX3Df59JSLQ

And really hanging off

http://www.google.com/url?source=img...MYWjQg9BRNR97Q

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100 yards to the outhouse by Willie Makeit!

No. He looks done to me.

Anymore photos of that one?

Betty Wont.

Nah, he maintained. I've seen the series before.

It ain't the dragon, but it could have happened there...

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:amazon

:lurk