« Reply #16 on: August 17, 2011, 06:37:48 AM »
It's surprising to me how many guys don't use the rear brake, to each their own I guess.
Well, I know there are some good uses for it, but I was actually trained to NOT use the rear braket, for safety. The premise was to force me to think of the front brake as all important, since the rear contributes so little to stopping (especially to hard/panic stopping) and if it were used too much, especially while not going straight, it could be disastrous.
12 years later, I am still stuck in that mode. And now I figure with linked brakes that cannot be unlinked, ABS, and traction control, there is no reason to unlearn it.
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