Chicken Strips / Lean Angle

[Django]

260 lbs rider who has ridden a CB on a race track with both 140/70 tires and 160/60's. Both tires were close to new when I hit the track, by design. With the 160/60's I touched peg feelers on both sides and still had approx 1/2"-3/4" unused tire surface. With a 140/70 tire after a track day I had approx 2-3mm of unused surface. Also the peg feeler touched and the crash bars did not. My crash bars are SWMotech. There was a post somewhere about an engine guard scraping resulting in a crash, I'm going to assume that was a different brand/model. I discovered this thread looking for the actually maximum lean angle of the bike as I was comparing it to the HD1200 and the Indian Scout out of curiosity...Anybody know?

You need to put the suspension to max and hardest extend to get more lean angle.

Then you can use shorter foot pegs to lean more.



You still will have some chicken strips on 160 rear tire. As the rim, which is made for a 140, is a little bit narrow for the 160, the 160 tire get more bent, resulting in more bow. That's why you cant ride it to the edge.

However, it's no problem to get rid of chicken strips on a 140: