LTSA's Riding Techniques

[Squeak the Rat]

Fuck you lot are tossers, find something productive to do instead of being such a fucken negative bunch of twats!

Something productive and positive like your post perhaps?

[unhingedlizard]

Trumpet used to have something like "attempting to pull away without grasping the bars could adversly affect handling" on thier tanks.

Firstly COULD?
Secondly how?

[Quartermile]

Something productive and positive like your post perhaps?

Yea true

[SwanTiger]

only if you teach me how to ride

Sure

Something productive and positive like your post perhaps?

Yes, precisely.

[Quartermile]

Why are you supposed to use the rear brake for hill starts I always use the front...??

[Smorg]

Why are you supposed to use the rear brake for hill starts I always use the front...??

fuck knows whatever your happy with I guess

[Ixion]

The rear brake thing for hill starts may be a carry over from the days of 2LS drum front brakes. Good brakes, they were (well, compared with the derisory SLS lumps of hub ornament that preceded them) , going forward. But , backwards, they became twin TRAILING shoe brakes! Which did bugger all! I remember rolling backwards down the steep bit of Queen St, on Tessa with the front brake hard on, frantically scrabbling to get a foot on the foot brake.

[Quartermile]

Oh Haha good to see they update their systems regulary then

[Mr. Peanut]

to be expected from the people who consider deceleration as the answer to all road condition changes...

seen www.hoof-it.co.nz yet?

Hahaha, patronise the public. BRILLIANT IDEA

Oh right, we can't beat physics, I totally agree. Does that mean that cause my bike stops and manouvers four times as fast as your average cage I can do 200kph?

What a bunch of anal retentive beaurocratic CUNTS!

[xwhatsit]

The rear brake thing for hill starts may be a carry over from the days of 2LS drum front brakes. Good brakes, they were (well, compared with the derisory SLS lumps of hub ornament that preceded them) , going forward. But , backwards, they became twin TRAILING shoe brakes! Which did bugger all! I remember rolling backwards down the steep bit of Queen St, on Tessa with the front brake hard on, frantically scrabbling to get a foot on the foot brake.

PoshTourer was telling me about that with his borrowed Bimmer; after that I was rather glad I had at least one disc on my bike.

I use rear brake for hill starts though; never gone backwards or stalled, either (apart from when I was still figuring out the clutch, of course). I don't have very good throttle control when I'm holding the front brake as well, that's why I do it.