This is how trends and fades take hold. People followed blindly what other people do without thinking about it for themselves.
Front brake only just happens to be the trend and the thing to do amongst the track guys at the moment.
This is how trends and fades take hold. People followed blindly what other people do without thinking about it for themselves.
Front brake only just happens to be the trend and the thing to do amongst the track guys at the moment.
As I said, they did some 800 emergency brake tests with a variety of riders - initially letting the riders do what they thought would produce the best results. Then they narrowed the test down to around 298 of the more successful tests, and isolated out the factors that made a different.
You'll see in the report that those riders that changed down increased their stopping distance by around 1.5m on average. So your better to not practice this method.
The report is here:
http://www.fmq.qc.ca/pdf/amorce-freinage_eng.pdf
Damn, you couldn't have picked a more appropriate user name could you?
On the one hand we have a guy that's good at going around and around in circles very fast and has lots of photos of himself on a race track, says something AND it is born out by observation of about 2,000 emergency braking runs over the last 5yrs.
On the other we have dipshit and his drop kick d.path and their only real world experience is a flaky study and a "I went to the track once".
Decisions, decisions.
Well it's also funny how most bikes with linked braking systems stop quicker with more control than bikes with riders on them who are probably doing the trendy front only stops.On the other we have dipshit and his drop kick d.path and their only real world experience is a flaky study and a "I went to the track once".
The average emergency stopping time was a just over three seconds. How many times do you think you can downshift during that time in an emergency?
So lets say you are applying your front brake hard. The weight is on the front wheel. At this point in time the rear brake has little impact (almost unmeasurable). You change down. With the weight on the front wheel do you still feel that engine braking will have an impact - even though the rear brake does not? And if so, why do you feel engine braking will help when the rear brake will not?
They did find that engaging the clutch did help, so that could be your saving grace.![]()
Pretty sure that they tell you this so that you dot get confused reaching for all the different leavers and knobs while that fkn car is pulling out in front of you.
EFFECTS OF DECELERATION FORCE
The mean deceleration for the group of 298 passes braking from 100 km/h to zero wa -0.898 g in a mean time
of 3.18 seconds. During these more than 3 seconds, the rider had to manage his braking while subjected to a considerable
deceleration force against his arms and hands which must in large measure support his upper body. A
simulator designed to recreate this force would have to incline the motorcycle on its front wheel at an angle of
64 degrees.
they obvoiusly used knob ends like boomer for their tests as most riders know to hold the tank with their knees
Also interesting that most journos slammed the linked brakes on the Blackbird (exact same system on the VFR's) and many sites show you how to unlink the brakes.
The linked systems on modern BMWs are exceptional, though the only ones I have seen have been antilock also (which means the rear can't lock as weight is transferred) so I would be happy to see a comparrison between modern linked BMWs without ABS if you have one thanks.
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