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Last night I was talking to a friend about riding & mentioned that I ended up dragging my boot heel when I layed it over in the curve on my Street Bob yesterday. He also has several bikes like I do, one of them being a sport bike. after I told him about dragging my heel, he stated that even his sport bike had "chicken strips" because he doesn't ride that hard. That got me to thinking, soI had to look to see if I have them too. Even leaning it over enough to drag my heels, there are still about 3/16" chicken strips on my tires. My touring bike has narrower,about 1/8"strips, and my old Yamaha XS650 twins are the bikes without chicken strips.
What about you?
last summer i was working on getting rid of my chicken strips on my buell xb12. to make a somewhat long story short....i had 42 stitches, bike is totaled, and my insurance got to help replace a small section of guard rail on a mountain road. now i dont give a crap if someone says i have chicken strips. at least im still riding.
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