front brake

Amen to the idea of using your front brake to stop. Some where I read that your front brake is the stopping brake and the rear brake is your control brake.

An important factor to remember when using the front brake is to sqquuuueeeeeeezzze the brake, don't GRAB it. If youn GRAB and lock the front wheel you have just enough time to say, "Oh.." as in "Oh, this is going to hurt" before you will be looking at the road very closely.

Later,
Jerry C
 
I am embarrassed to admit that when I first started riding I was a bit heavy on the rear brake, I had more than one Oh Sh*t moment where I found myself riding sideways down the road
 
there will be some that will still say OH S...tomorrow , next month , next year etc etc. I do not know why is it that some believe the rear is the main brake IT IS AS USEFUL AS A SCREEN DOOR ON A SUBMARINE ..
FOR ADVANCED RIDERs ONLY it helps change your direction and tighten a turn while banked.
 

Now that rings a bell AD
Lets see here...it helps change your direction and tighten a turn while banked.

Gotit! My pilot training.. its the R3 rudder pedal correct ?

Sorry just joshin mate
 
Dennsell said:
Now that rings a bell AD
Lets see here...it helps change your direction and tighten a turn while banked.

Gotit! My pilot training.. its the R3 rudder pedal correct ?

Sorry just joshin mate
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Is that what your flight instructor taught you? Did he ever teach you about a cross controlled spin caused by excessive rudder? Mine did, we use to do them at altitude to show how deadly they would be on that last turn to final approach.

Actually its a pretty good analogy to consider the rear brake as a rudder since it can kill you just as easily when applied excessively.
 


been flying for 42 years and never thought of that thanks ..but full rudder never killed anyone that I can remember and using rudder on turning on final that 's a new one to me
 

Interesting.. never tried Gliders but if my memory serves me correctly they use the art of control cross to loose speed and altitude on hot finals.. but not disputing your claim Sir

I guess its all about balanced bike control.. a slight application of rear brake drops the bike deaper into the bank angle as a bit of extra throttle lifts you out of the bank angle. All done precisely with the greatest of care at speed....

Like life itself.. its all about Balance, say hello to the Chinese Ying Yang

JMHO..
 

cross control helps losing altitude (not speed)without gaining speed on final in order to get on profile when too high on final it can be done with a single engine or a jumbo jet equally
you drop a wing (with aileron) then kick the rudder toward the high wing and check your heading and control that slip sliding till ready to line up over the button useful during big crosswind light airplane use it lot more than big one ..

but back to bikes like dennsell says done precisely the use of rear brake when banked helps via centripedic force to tighten the line in the turn when the original line may take the bike cross the median. and meet incoming traffic '

my 2cts..
 
I was just thinking how versitle this R3owners site is for information, here we got everything covered

Roll us all into one.. we could rule the World .. well maybe not..
 
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