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Chicken strips among Toronto sport bikes

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Now just to be clear, there are levels of chicken stripe prowess here:

Level 1: 2 finger thick rear wheel stripes (average for a TO commuter). You're doing ok in biker culture / society
Level 2: 1 Finger thick real wheel stripes. You got some moves.
Level 3: Scuffing the edges of the rear wheel. (within a few mm of the edge). Impressive...itching for a track day clearly.
Level 4: Scuffing the edges of the front wheel. (if this is from street riding, you are a maniac street riding god)
Level 5: No chicken stripes at all and signs of tearing. Track day rider...legit!
Level 6: Balled rear edges. One of your better track day riders. Wait till this dude gets back to his bike and shake his hand.
Level 7: Balled front edges! Bauwsssssss. Hire this man for any senior management position in your company.

Also confirm legit status by inspecting odometer. Anything less than 10k for a bike 2 years or older.....perhaps there may also be a Timmy's cup holder installed on the forks yok!
 
I was playing with my daughters street bike! LOL

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The shame is too hard to bare!

I feel like I'm 15 years old again, without an olie hole in my skate shoes! I still don't respect a pair of scuff free DCs to this day!!!

* slow clap * ....I couldn't have said it better my self.
 
I can't agree more, yes, chicken strips are not a gauge for the skill...but come on---10 cm, literally! Just look around in downtown! I hang off the bike quite a bit to reduce the lean angle as much as possible, but even doing that and if not hitting corners way too fast---that kind of meat on the sides is unusual, lol!

If they live downtown it's not surprising, downtown traffic, cops everywhere, idiot drivers etc. My buddy's Ninja 650R has huge chicken strips, but he goes through set after set of tires on his track R6.

Bottom line here really: worry about your own bike and if a stranger's opinion on how you corner means that much to you you probably need to calm way down.

/shrug
 
Getting on the power early I see. Let me shake your hand!

If you did this on the street, let me sing your personal anthem every morning before I start work!

just give me that senior management position! LMAO
 

Actually I've got a GREAT excuse.
I burned off most of my rear last Friday night @ Cayuga. (even the guy running the mop / broom told me "that's enough") - I kept it spinning in 3rd gear for ***** & giggles).
Not putting another one on it until at least Monday evening.

Another thing about the ride Sunday - the OP wants a text of bike & colour. I don't do the text thing, and I forget what I ride.
 
i dont have chicken strips but the only time i got my tires to start to roll is at Deals Gap, simply not enough continuous turns anywhere even close to here for me to heat up the tires to that point.
 
i dont have chicken strips but the only time i got my tires to start to roll is at Deals Gap, simply not enough continuous turns anywhere even close to here for me to heat up the tires to that point.

Balling at Deals counts as balling on the street, if for nothing else than the sheer street riding commitment to ride Deals in the first place.

You're in a very elite club. Sew a patch on your jacket.
 
Now just to be clear, there are levels of chicken stripe prowess here:

Level 1: 2 finger thick rear wheel stripes (average for a TO commuter). You're doing ok in biker culture / society
Level 2: 1 Finger thick real wheel stripes. You got some moves.
Level 3: Scuffing the edges of the rear wheel. (within a few mm of the edge). Impressive...itching for a track day clearly.
Level 4: Scuffing the edges of the front wheel. (if this is from street riding, you are a maniac street riding god)
Level 5: No chicken stripes at all and signs of tearing. Track day rider...legit!
Level 6: Balled rear edges. One of your better track day riders. Wait till this dude gets back to his bike and shake his hand.
Level 7: Balled front edges! Bauwsssssss. Hire this man for any senior management position in your company.

Also confirm legit status by inspecting odometer. Anything less than 10k for a bike 2 years or older.....perhaps there may also be a Timmy's cup holder installed on the forks yok!

Level 8: Balled slicks with the rear one worn flat past the wear indicator on the right side. My race bike was in need of getting the rear shock rebuilt - which is now done. (Grand Bend started that wear pattern - Shannonville finished it off.)
 
Level 8: Balled slicks with the rear one worn flat past the wear indicator on the right side. My race bike was in need of getting the rear shock rebuilt - which is now done. (Grand Bend started that wear pattern - Shannonville finished it off.)

With credit like that, there are banks handing out mortgages on that basis alone!
 
i dont have chicken strips but the only time i got my tires to start to roll is at Deals Gap, simply not enough continuous turns anywhere even close to here for me to heat up the tires to that point.

Truth.

The profile of the tire is a factor too. I got the BT-16 rear down to the edge on my MONSTER in like the first week! But the Pirelli Corsa 3's I've been running on the Daytona? Forgitabout it! Still got a few mm left.
 
Truth.

The profile of the tire is a factor too. I got the BT-16 rear down to the edge on my MONSTER in like the first week! But the Pirelli Corsa 3's I've been running on the Daytona? Forgitabout it! Still got a few mm left.

+1 BT-16's are like a gino Civic low profile tire. P3's make you feel like a noob despite toe sparking and elbow scuffing.
 
Hmm...I wonder why would anyone own a sport bike only for commuting?! Commuting PLUS the weekend twisties---I get it, but 100% commute as demonstrated by the unused rear portions in downtown Toronto?! I don't get it. There are better bikes for that kind of riding..

Now just to be clear, there are levels of chicken stripe prowess here:

Level 1: 2 finger thick rear wheel stripes (average for a TO commuter). You're doing ok in biker culture / society
Level 2: 1 Finger thick real wheel stripes. You got some moves.
Level 3: Scuffing the edges of the rear wheel. (within a few mm of the edge). Impressive...itching for a track day clearly.
Level 4: Scuffing the edges of the front wheel. (if this is from street riding, you are a maniac street riding god)
Level 5: No chicken stripes at all and signs of tearing. Track day rider...legit!
Level 6: Balled rear edges. One of your better track day riders. Wait till this dude gets back to his bike and shake his hand.
Level 7: Balled front edges! Bauwsssssss. Hire this man for any senior management position in your company.

Also confirm legit status by inspecting odometer. Anything less than 10k for a bike 2 years or older.....perhaps there may also be a Timmy's cup holder installed on the forks yok!

I live in Hamilton where the on ramps are not the only corners; I hang off the bike and effectively reduce lean angle, and I know that because without hanging off, even getting close to the same speed, immediate feedback for slipping a bit...and I'm only Level 3. Judging by what I see downtown, we need a scale from -7 to 7 ;) but....i'd better stop slacking right now, obviously nobody's hiring me based on chicken gauges :[

Took this pic after the 2nd ride at last new rear tire change, and I am both afraid and not skilled enough to go as fast as many others I've been on a ride with from this forum...so i REALLY don't get the 10 cm unused portion on the bikes downstairs..

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