How fast do you guys think he is going. He is deep has hell in this lean though. If he does lowside it, he doesn't have far to fall. 

too fast for the camera to capture anything... or for the photographer to take the picture.

i dont see anything

no pic

Im a tard, i forgot to post the pic.....lolololol

Is that really a lean or just an in progress dump?

I dont know but he is digging deep on that one.

Here's another....crazy!

Damn that is low. When you get to low does the bike give you any signs or does she just drop? How do you find your limits with out dropping the bike?

Quote from: dwn4whadever on March 30, 2006, 09:44:37 PM
Damn that is low. When you get to low does the bike give you any signs or does she just drop? How do you find your limits with out dropping the bike?

Lots of practice and LOTS of skill.

But does the bike give you any signs.

Yeah. At racing school, they have these training wheel things, leaning-wheels if you will, that allow you to lean without worrying about lowsiding. Basically, the reason a rider drags a knee is because that is their "gauge" to know how much contact surface they have left to play with on the tire before they hit sidewall and drop. I am sure that the rider pictured can feel the most subtle signs of "letting go", otherwise he/she would not be able to lean like this without consistently going down. So to answer your question, with practice, skill, and having a sense for your bike, yes you get feedback.

Grassy ass

not only that but racers (and some fast locals too) can recover a bike that has let go, by levering the bike on their knee until the front wheel catches again. I personally know several local riders that have done just that.

That first pic is a Fast Bikes test rider (FS is a UK bike mag). I remember seeing some of those shots and I think in one or more of them they were taken just before the bike let go.  But its also not beyond the limits of physics to have someone drag an elbow.

pretty sick stuff. I'd love to do that.

I hope i am that good one day. I would love to go to the track and lean in the corners like that.

New question.

Could the GS500 achieve that lean? Enough for elbow down?

NOt stock...pegs/exhaust are in the way...but that's pretty much the only thing preventing it outside of the rider.

Left hand turn with aftermarket rearsets set way high up.  I hit the edge of my exhaust can once not a cool feeling.

Wussies.Like to see them do that and Live thru 2 Lost Knee Caps.

Not stock, I agree.

Only the stock pegs?
I'm thinking maybe a few of the following: low handlebars/clip-ons (aggressive, lower body-positioning), very sticky tires (perhaps wider, meatier tires?), rearsets with clearance.

The reason I ask is, the fun-factor such as this. I could care less about power. If the gs can get an elbow down, all the best. I'm not riding to set track records and I like the lightness, flickablility, easy-handling of this bike. I debate this over a 600 sportbike with all the goodies out-of-the-package such as suspension and adjustments, clip-ons, rearsets, bigger wheels with tire selection, etc.

By the time I get knee down on the full-stock gs, I see about 1-2mm of unused rear tire on stock BT-45's. I haven't scraped my pipe before, but if the bike can still go lower, that's interesting...