Track days/nights...You will be surprised what you and your bike are capable of compared to how it feels on a normal road ride. It feels like super fast learning. One of the best things you can do with your bike. (Any type of bike!)
Something I have never know to be honest, is quite how fast you need to be going around a bend in order to have to 'get the knee down' to manage to get through it. On my twisty local roads here in Argyll there are few bends that I can't go round at least at the official speed limit and just have to lean myself off the bike or tilt the bike over a little and maybe poke a knee out to the side to create wind drag aiding the turn. Seems to me that if I needed to get a knee down I would be travelling at speeds that would mean instant death if anything went wrong.
You don't have to be doing mental speeds in order to get your knee down, you just need to hang off more, I once got me knee down on a TDM900 by hanging off like a Gibbon after a mate said it wouldn't be possible on that bike! While racing the knee down thing is more as a guide, you hang off enough to help the bike turn, when your knee touches down that's the guide that you don't have much lean left before you run out of tyre, the added bonus is if you get a little slide you can save it by picking the bike up on your knee.
Them chaps who took thi photo, Billy, were ont Snake pass t'other week. Just up from t'owd Snake Pass Inn.
I think there are loads of them mate, I have seen them about before but always forgot to have a look to see if they got me, wouldn't pay for a photo like that, trouble is with me racing I get loads of pictures taken at every race weekend that are better.
I used to know folk that going for a ride on their bike meant turning up at a quiet set of roundabouts and "roundabout surfing" all evening getting their knee down. With all the cracking roads we are spoilt with up here, easily accessable within minutes of even the big cities. Mental. Getting your knee down though, was a "rite of passage" when I started riding bikes (90's) Performance Bikes mag being the bible, it went for me: Hang off,hang off more: pegs down. Hang off even more: pegs and knee down. Hang off like a monkey: knee down. Would be surprised if it was even at 30mph. Never done it since road or track. I always think it looks like you are trying to hard (on the road) Always up for a bit of goon riding though.
