Braking ,braking or maybee Breaking.

[XP@]

Over the weekend I realised another (obvious?) factor in stopping distance.
How warm your tyres are, makes a big difference.
I went to the local school carpark (about .5 km away) to have a play. When I first got there my front was locking really easily, then as my tyre warmed up the traction increased by a fair bit.

Don't know how much bearing this has on the stats but they say most accidents happen within a few km's of your home. After this realisation I will make sure I have a little more space until tyres are warmed up.

[Ixion]

Over the weekend I realised another (obvious?) factor in stopping distance.
How warm your tyres are, makes a big difference.
I went to the local school carpark (about .5 km away) to have a play. When I first got there my front was locking really easily, then as my tyre warmed up the traction increased by a fair bit.

Don't know how much bearing this has on the stats but they say most accidents happen within a few km's of your home. After this realisation I will make sure I have a little more space until tyres are warmed up.

Yes - and in the rain they will take a lot longer to warm up.

[magnum]

do a braking sesion at a trackday to learn,or get some cones and practise with ya mates.

[XP@]

Just fresh from the TSS Rider Development and woh, I was a little surprised to find that they teach changing down as part of the max effort stop.

The stop consissts of 5 tasks
1. throttle off
2. front brake
3. clutch
4. rear brake
5. change down

The first 3 I was ok with
the rear brake I was way too heavy, and needed a bit of practice to stop it locking

When I tried to add number 5 every thing went to pot. My attention was diverted from the front brake. However over a few practices the stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp became a bit more automatic. with a lot more practice I think i should be able to complete a stop in first without thinking. Definatly the way to go!

[Pancakes]

My car driving improved heaps when I bought an old FWD rally car off a guy that had been road registered and he showed me how to drive on gravel. It's the same technique as snowboarding or cycling or motorbikes. Stay loose, don't rebound shock all around the system, let each bit do it's job. When things feel hairy, telling myself to loosen up normally does the trick.

[FROSTY:Me]

Well ABS on bike --does it work--well I must say --shit yea.
1.5km ride to a servo to pump the tyres up on the FJ --idiot pulls out and I hit the picks -tyres were a tadd low and woooaaa clack clack on goes the abs
This is 1km after picking the beast up