Reply To: I can’t believe I did it (on a few things)
August 26, 2009 at 9:41 am
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Munch
Participant
Congrats! I was fortunate in my first dealing with gravel, I watched my boss man handle it on my V500 when I first got it and paid close attention to his technique. Takes a bit of courage for you to ride your new ride to the house , especially fresh from the MSF. Definitely use the rear brakes more on the gravel though. Both if you can but more on the rear. That front brake with street tires will quickly turn into a ski more then stopping power and then down you will go.
But hey , guess what….now your not scared of the first scratch! So now you can focus on RIDING!