Man that brought back memories. I played that over and over along with all the other Valk videos when I was "willing it to happen". There was a week from when I paid a deposit to when my financial adviser got back from holidays before I found out if I could pull it off. So I read and watched every single thing I could find and there wasn't much at all, so I just did it all over and over again lol.
This one here was also one of my favorites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzrlnMaqIAYYou can lean them over a long way compared to an average cruiser. If you put pucks on (Mine are Peg Saver titaniums) the footpegs you can go stupid far all the time. Recently I have fallen in love with cruising but before then I may or may not have been known to ride a tad enthusiastically. Scared the crap out of more then one sportsbike. To be clear a decent rider on a sports bike is going to hand you your arse. They are simply too heavy and comparatively limited in lean angle. But an average rider... lol... Shock and shame hahha
On the bike...
Before and after many lol's
I can't see how you could do it without those skids though, there would be no foot peg left.
BTW I don't think they are just for stuffing around or interesting light shows. If I go into a corner too hot or for whatever reason I need way more lean angle I can safely and confidently lean the thing right over until my foot is wedged up to the bodywork. That BTW is when I know I have no more room to play as the bodywork is about to scrape.
Sheffjs. I think it didn't sell because it doesn't look/sound like what people "think" a bike should. I actually wanted an M109. Never got round to riding one. I took a test ride on a Valk, got back and signed the paperwork and then waited a long long week to see if my impulse buy was doable. Never looked back.
