Rear brake use?

[GrayWolf]

Why, because it is written in a book that you have not given reference too?

Does anyone on this site even fuckin ride a bike? Go out, and work out for yourself what is BEST FOR YOU and your style!

No I have never ridden a bike, really, honestly, I am really an SUV driver who loves forcing dimwit bikers off the road! However just for you... book un referenced for YOUR edification is....

the secret skills of motorcycle riding level 2,
NZ motorcycle safety consultants, Mega Rider organisation....

Also please feel free to read the UK Police 'roadcraft' manual, unless of course one of the most highly trained 'pursuit' riding forces have nothing to teach you?

What I do know is best for my style? Is avoiding riding with people like YOU on the road!

[Deano]

What I do know is best for my style? Is avoiding riding with people like YOU on the road!

There's not many that can keep up so you'd most likely be sweet in any case.

[sinfull]

My back brake squeaks, do you think oiling the disc might help ?

Is there a book on the subject ?

[Kickaha]

There's not many that can keep up so you'd most likely be sweet in any case.

Easy enough to pass him when he crashes though

[Crasherfromwayback]

My back brake squeaks, do you think oiling the disc might help ?

Is there a book on the subject ?

Better to remove the caliper. You'll save weight at the same time.

[ellipsis]

....after years of riding without a front brake on dirt ovals and then giving that away for road racing, i found it very difficult to even touch the front lever for a long while....now after lots of years on sealed circuits i am very wary of the back brake....similar on the road, but i find that now and again a poke at the rear does settle a lot of things down...fuck putting too much thought into it tho...i didn't have a head for heights when i was much,much younger...not a good foible to have if you work at heights...i had to rationalise my fears and found one little mantra that worked and all of a sudden i was one of those highwire type of nutters that could tip toe along a 60 degree roof on the ridge line or run around on the top plate of a two or three storey structure....the change came when i thought about why we didn't ever worry about falling from a plank set at a meter high yet were terrified if it was 6 or 8 meters high...it was a simple deduction....too much thought going into what is a purely natural thing, standing up without falling...

[Crasherfromwayback]

the secret skills of motorcycle riding level 2,
NZ motorcycle safety consultants, Mega Rider organisation....
!

If I'm not wrong...that's Allan Kirk and his mates? Allan Kirk couldn't ride his hand without falling off it.

[Drew]

book un referenced for YOUR edification is....

Bwahahahahahahahaha, although you are trying to preach, it has nothing to do with religion.

Go get a fuckin dictionary and look up edification ya muppet.

I suppose your context could be construed as correct, since you seem to think that the two books you've read are gospel.

The reason I ask if anyone on here rides, is because dicks like you judge the likes of my riding on what I've typed. I dunno if you're too simple to put two and two together man, but riding and computing are very different things.

For the first time in a while I seem to have struck a nerve though. Keep biting, I love slinging shit and no one else takes me seriously so I've got no rep to tarnish.

[davebullet]

Well I just made it easy for me to decide. Just had my first bin and snapped off the rear brake lever... so it's front only time to get it to the shop!

PS: for what it's worth, I occasionally use the back brake just to make sure it still works. It does help slow down - sure, but more often than not dangerous to use. After a while without use, the back brake pads seem to "glaze" over and become ineffective. The back brake on the speed triple is not very good anyway. Some people trail into a corner, or use it mid corner. That for me just had the effect of lengthening the wheelbase and making the bike run wide.

[Stylo]

Bwahahahahahahahaha, although you are trying to preach, it has nothing to do with religion.

Go get a fuckin dictionary and look up edification ya muppet.

I suppose your context could be construed as correct, since you seem to think that the two books you've read are gospel.

The reason I ask if anyone on here rides, is because dicks like you judge the likes of my riding on what I've typed. I dunno if you're too simple to put two and two together man, but riding and computing are very different things.

For the first time in a while I seem to have struck a nerve though. Keep biting, I love slinging shit and no one else takes me seriously so I've got no rep to tarnish.

Oh dear

[sinfull]

Bwahahahahahahahaha, although you are trying to preach, it has nothing to do with religion.

Go get a fuckin dictionary and look up edification ya muppet.

I suppose your context could be construed as correct, since you seem to think that the two books you've read are gospel.

The reason I ask if anyone on here rides, is because dicks like you judge the likes of my riding on what I've typed. I dunno if you're too simple to put two and two together man, but riding and computing are very different things.

For the first time in a while I seem to have struck a nerve though. Keep biting, I love slinging shit and no one else takes me seriously so I've got no rep to tarnish.

Well said ! Gives me the shits all that quoting from books, how the fuck are ya suppose to turn the pages when shits going down ??

No seriously !! Them cunt's with the books should learn to ride without reading ! That shit should be outlawed like drinking while riding, though that is hard without straws !!

Well I just made it easy for me to decide. Just had my first bin and snapped off the rear brake lever....

I hope the chick in your avatar was not hurt too bad ?

[sinfull]

Better to remove the caliper. You'll save weight at the same time.

Sweet, never thought of that side of it, riding on the road and all that now ! Can you buy a bung of some kind for the brake line ? Or should i just take the pedal off too, so as to save brake fluid squirting on the back tyre by mistakingly depressing the brake ?

On second thoughts it should be ok cause the fluid would only hit the side of the tyre and it's a harley and everyone knows they don't corner, so a bit of oil won't hurt and might soak in to stop the tyre drying out and keep it's longevity aye ?

[CHOPPA]

Its surprising how fast I resorted to my back brakes when the lever pulls back to the handle at 220 and theres a wall coming up...

[GrayWolf]

Bwahahahahahahahaha, although you are trying to preach, it has nothing to do with religion.

Go get a fuckin dictionary and look up edification ya muppet.

I suppose your context could be construed as correct, since you seem to think that the two books you've read are gospel.

The reason I ask if anyone on here rides, is because dicks like you judge the likes of my riding on what I've typed. I dunno if you're too simple to put two and two together man, but riding and computing are very different things.

For the first time in a while I seem to have struck a nerve though. Keep biting, I love slinging shit and no one else takes me seriously so I've got no rep to tarnish.

nah struck a nerve? you need to be a lot better at shit slinging than this feeble attempt. If you cannot converse or enter an arguement wiothout resorting to anglo saxon and purile outpouring? You arent worth the time.. Oh apart from the FACT that the Police roadcraft book I mentioned IS accepted worldwide as one of the formost knowledge bases of motorcycling, however as you are obviously superior to them? I rest my case....

[caspernz]

Haha, yep the above dribble reminds me of a brief discussion I had with one of my fellow biking colleagues. I mentioned I was going to attend some Prorider courses. His response: "What the hell for? You've been riding for years...." To which I responded: "Quite simple really, I wanna be the best rider I can be. And anyway, you've been driving trucks for 20 odd years too and yet you still can't do that properly."

The best place to learn is at a course, preferably on a track or other place where no traffic is around. The next best thing might be to take on board the advice from a longtime biker whose opinion you respect....obviously this forum is such a place at times, yet at others it's overrun by Richard Cranium impersonators.