How many miles before knee down

[Gilps]

I've never got my knee down on the road. I've learnt to go round corners without needing to.

[Ghost]

On the road!!! I've never managed it on the track.

[Tush67]

I'm off to see a surgeon (in Barry of all flipping places) about my knee this afternoon. Who knows, maybe I'll be able to get mine down by dragging it behind the bike in a plastic baggie if he decides its snip, cut, chop, saw, sew time

[TP#12]

Eeek! The idea of knee down on the road scares me! But then after seeing some of the photo's on this thread I can understand how people do, I've just never wanted to murder my body position so much to achieve it without carrying lean because it compromises your control of the bike.

I rarely do on track either, there's far too much fascination with it IMO.

[SP2 Boy]

I saw somebody trying to get their knee down whilst going around a roundabout recently near Ipswich. The bike was leaning at about 10 deg from the vertical and he was hanging off the saddle by his other bent knee...what a kn*b! He looked pathetic.

I have very rarely seen anybody leaning their bikes on the road that warrants getting their knee down.

Perhaps those that can decide that their knee caps are too precious to be damaged by the ****e surface, pot holes, kerbs or drains.

Remember, you dont go round the corner quickly with your knee down if it destabilises you by hitting a solid object and spits you off...save it for the track!

[harriebird]

never never never on the road. first time this year was at Druids at the end of May, and that was the first one since Assen last year! i can do it, but tbh it sends me all giddy when i do and i lose all concentration so i don't worry about it now.