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<blockquote data-quote="Knifemaker" data-source="post: 1402086" data-attributes="member: 1075"><p>Not getting the importance of being able to get two feet flat down at one time over getting both feet down "on the balls of the foot". If you are walking a bike forward while straddling it, you're doing so on the balls of your feet, not your heels. Ditto pushing it backwards. Your are not using your ankle muscles to move the bike, your using your leg muscles. When you walk it's not your heels propelling you forward, its you pushing off with your toes.</p><p></p><p>Although by sliding up towards the tank and stretching my legs, I could get both heels down. But in all my time on the bike this ability was hardly ever used, and I never dropped my bike due to using just the balls (and toes) of my feet. When I stopped at a light I usually used one foot or both toes.</p><p></p><p>I rode tall dirt bikes for years where only one foot could be put down, and there too the only times the bike was dropped was due to stupidity not foot placement.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Knifemaker, post: 1402086, member: 1075"] Not getting the importance of being able to get two feet flat down at one time over getting both feet down "on the balls of the foot". If you are walking a bike forward while straddling it, you're doing so on the balls of your feet, not your heels. Ditto pushing it backwards. Your are not using your ankle muscles to move the bike, your using your leg muscles. When you walk it's not your heels propelling you forward, its you pushing off with your toes. Although by sliding up towards the tank and stretching my legs, I could get both heels down. But in all my time on the bike this ability was hardly ever used, and I never dropped my bike due to using just the balls (and toes) of my feet. When I stopped at a light I usually used one foot or both toes. I rode tall dirt bikes for years where only one foot could be put down, and there too the only times the bike was dropped was due to stupidity not foot placement. [/QUOTE]
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