bike carving....?

[D-Sub]

Cant figure out if this is real or not:

http://www.bastardbreaks.com/downloads/BikesCarving.jpg

[Jim Callen]

Eh, it can't be real. There wouldn't be enough surface friction to keep them up. That, and they'd have bloody legs from being scraped.:D

[D-Sub]

I was thinkin they had some sort of pads on their knees...

I agree with you. looks cool tho:)

[Baka Dasai]

Bike guru <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0960723668/104-2655885-4831114?v=glance">Jobst Brandt</a> claims that <a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=dRSD9.50531%24Ik.1336401%40typhoon.son ic.net&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain">the most you can get a bicycle to lean before it loses traction is about 45 degrees</a>.

Here's a picture of Jobst cornering with a lean angle of around 45 deg (close to the limit of traction).

<img src="http://www-math.science.unitn.it/Bike/Countries/Europe/Tour_Reports/Tour_of_the_Alps_Gallery/tiretest.jpg">

[bobdea]

it might depend on your tires on a tire that is puffed out to the sides you could possibly get pretty low
that picture has gotta be a fake though
I do remember being able to scape my pedal that was up(might be imagining it though these childhood memories sometimes get inflated) and ripping turns on my bikes
maybe this is where I got the crave to carve
damn that was like 1990 when I was ten it seems like yesterday

[D-Sub]

the more I look at that pic the more I think theyre just laying down, not moving

[knoch]

kind of like that kid on his scooter