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Neither.
Thats really how they corner.
If you tried that on street tires and non-track conditions, you'd eat pavement.
Maybe if you rode a supersport you'd easily see how it's very possible to get down to the point of wearing down your foot pegs. The main problem to doing it is that it takes some real speed on a nice turn to get into the turn that much, in most cases you would have to easily do well over double the speed limit to get there. but as far as doing it, give me a normal road that has been pretty well kept up and I'll lean the bike over to the point of griding the pegs even without that little stopper.I also think it's neat that they have pucks on their elbows. That's hardcore lean.
+1 for the track comment too. Doing leans like this requires very sticky tires, and a GREAT road surface. I've leaned down half that much, caught a pebble and felt the bike kick out momentarily.
I also got freaked the hell out last week when making a regular turn at an intersection, and the toe of my boot touched the ground and got yanked up under the peg. Luckily I was wearing the steel toes when that happened, but it still shocked my foot quite badly. It was enough to make a mental note "Keep your toes up when you're cornering like that"
Thanks for the advice, I got two things out of that that I'll start doing:
First off, the foot placement. I'll get into that habit.
But secondly, when you mention raising my ass out of the seat, this might make everything fall in place during a corner.
I'm not sure if my bike's weight is why, or if I'm just not trying - But I corner without shifting my ass at all. I find no need to hang off the bike to get it around corners, no matter how scary fast I take them. I was really surprised that I DID hit my foot on the ground, because I wasn't even trying an extreme lean. I thought that maybe my (lack of) hanging off the bike was just because my little bike has like, no moment of inertia (I don't press up against the inside bar at all, like I do on my friend's SS bikes). So I figured that leaning is for bigger bikes.
Chances are what you think is scary fast is really nothing more then what I'd call a nice fun easy ride. =)no matter how scary fast I take them.