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Originally Posted by dgci
Remember, the two top causes of motorcycle accidents are the cage turning left in front of you, and FAILURE TO NEGOTIATE A CURVE. If you're grinding boards on a regular basis, you're probably pushing the curve too hard. The 900 isn't a sport bike, don't try to ride it like one.
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Actually, that's the REASON that I make a point of scraping the boards. I'm not hot dogging it in curves that contain lots of hazards (limited visibility, narrow road, ditches, etc.). I'm picking my spots and practicing my riding. I figure that eventually, I'm going to encounter a situation where I have to tighten my turn in the middle of a curve when I didn't expect it (car in my lane, or something else that requires a course correction). When that time comes, I want to know what I'm capable of. I practice leaning so that I know instinctively when I'm about to run out of room on the lean. I know when the boards are about to scrape because I've practiced it enough. I just wanted to know if adding bars was going to change that. The fact that the boards flip up to give a bit more without taking me off of my wheels gave me the ability to get to the point where I knew how much ground clearance I had to work with. The bars won't do that.
I agree with you that it just doesn't pay to take chances in curves. But I think that if I never worked on my skills to the point where I was confident in leaning enough to scrape a board, I wouldn't be ready for a potentially dangerous situation.
Cheers!
Steve