How do you drag knee???!!!

It is real hard to help some one with this with out seeing them ride. But just sit to 1 side of the bike extend the knee a little and lean.

However, I don't condone dragging a knee in the street, just go to a track day & you would be doing it at the end of the day.

However, I don't condone dragging a knee in the street, just go to a track day & you would be doing it at the end of the day.

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Exactly. Save the kneedragging for the track!

The best place to learn and do this is at the track. In time you will be able to kneedrag.

Another "save it for the track" vote. While I will very very very occasionally touch a knee down in the backroads, it's an incidental by-product of hanging off, and almost never intended.

Dragging a knee shouldn't be your objective at this point -- it will only hinder your improvement. This is true on the track as well. I see so many newbies on the track "trying" to drag knee for the first time, and they are so focused on it that they screw up their lines, or they make unintended inputs to the bike mid-corner. Ugly! The consequences are even greater on the street.

Focus on your lines, focus on being smooth, and with that will come greater speed, and eventually, that knee will hit tarmac. Don't rush it.

quasi888 said:

While I will very very very occasionally touch a knee down in the backroads, it's an incidental by-product of hanging off, and almost never intended.

Dragging a knee shouldn't be your objective at this point -- it will only hinder your improvement. This is true on the track as well. I see so many newbies on the track "trying" to drag knee for the first time, and they are so focused on it that they screw up their lines, or they make unintended inputs to the bike mid-corner. Ugly! The consequences are even greater on the street.

Focus on your lines, focus on being smooth, and with that will come greater speed, and eventually, that knee will hit tarmac. Don't rush it.

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Very will put. :thumbup:

I too try not to drag my knee on the streets. Once you knee is down there is not much lean angle left to re-act to something that maybe in the roadway. It's a safety thing.


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I rarely even drag my knee on the track. Not to brag but I'm pretty fast, around top 5 novice and mid pack expert times(well only if they're having a bad day). Same thing goes for the group I ride with, all licensed racers. In fact I used to concentrate, still do on occasion, to much on it and like everyone said it throws your lines. I just use it as a reference point
Now off my soap box......the first time you do it you feel like a GP star. It's a real sense of "Holy crap I just freakin dragged my KNEE!!!"

jonesti said:

......the first time you do it you feel like a GP star. It's a real sense of "Holy crap I just freakin dragged my KNEE!!!"

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That's the way it was for me.

The first time I ever dragged a knee. I about killed myself. It scared the living crap out of me. Almost caused me to highside the freekin bike.

I just wish I could answer this one.....one of these days!

I just got done with the Jason Pridmore Star school and scraped my knee a few times out there, but not so much that I even noticed it while I was doing it. Just came off looked down and saw a few scufs on my knee. And I was one of the fastest beginers out there (the school is broken down to street riders and advanced and out of the street riders I was passing quite a few).


This is one of the best schools I have ever been to by the way. I would recomend this to anyone who wants to do a track day!!! I learned alot.

Stop trying to drag your knee before you crash. If you're going fast enough with the proper technique it'll happen.

Basically you're not going through the turn fast enough. The faster you go, the more you have to lean your bike over to keep the same line. Go faster, on the track.

yes, go faster = more lean. in the canyons, when i see the speed limit on turns, i double it.

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Basically you're not going through the turn fast enough. The faster you go, the more you have to lean your bike over to keep the same line. Go faster, on the track.

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umm no frong....you don't have to go fast to drag....nor do you have to lean as much either....it's all subjective body positioning.....nice wheelie...lol

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ST

I can get all teh way over in a parking lot doing 5-10 mph. Not to hard. And it's pretty easy to hang off the. I was watching my friend ride, bragging about draggin peg but he wasn't leaning with his bike. as soon as I told him to scootch his butt over a little he no longer hit his pegs and got alot faster.

its comes all natural.

- D