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Good question.

I myself never measured my own lean angle, but in the Hill Country there’s a 40mph curve I know well that I used to scrape footpeg feelers regularly at 80 on that Ninja. Sharpest corner I ever took was at the ‘95 BMW Nationals outside of Silverton on the inside lane of a marked 20mph turn in the Rockies. With them red-shirted Dust Bowl Beemers on my tail I was leaned over so hard that looking up to my left as far around the turn as I could, all I could see was more of the turn about twenty feet in front of me.

I figure the current Harley Sportster Roadster is about minimum, since every Sportster I ever rode with back then ((OK, both of ‘em) ran out of cornering clearance. Harley gives the roadster 29 degrees both sides.