Munch“””Generally, NEVER brake in a corner except as a very last resort. Do all of your braking just before you get to the corner. An expert racer may use some back brake and less likely a tiny bit of front brake in part of a corner, but they risk a crash every time they do this. If you can, stand the bike up straight and go straight for a short distance in a corner, before using both brakes, then let the brakes off and steer to lean again.
If a street rider must brake in a corner to keep from hitting something, they will usually use a lot of back brake kept on until the bike stops, to make the bike low-side on purpose…..”””
Ofcourse this obviously does not cover rounding exit ramps to find ol’ silver hair thinking it’s Sunday morning and she is off to church instead of Monday morning and time for work. Draggin the rear brake will not always result in a low side…. please try to extend the explanation. There is a such thing as varying pressure for results. This is one part of MSF that aggravated me once I rode highway and really learned. The First time I had to ride to work I have a huge sweeping exit ramp to go around…. yes sport bike fans …. wide enough and long enough to drag a knee if you wanted…… Anyway I was going around and there was Grand ma …. in a Grand Marquis just toodlin along at 35 mph….me… 65 as the speed limit states (well really 60) and started getting a touch worried cause we were in the middle of the turn. Good lean going and started running through what I should or should not do. Only thing MSF tell you …stand the bike up, point straight and break. Ummmm no…not on a major interstate exit. Luckily getting past the noobish thoughts I decided to drag the rear brake to slow me down and VOILA!….got around all happy and safe. New riders….. please learn varying pressures with your scoot and how the bike reacts. It is NOT just on and off as some statements tend to suggest.
“”To be extra safe on a motorcycle, you can buy a Honda Goldwing with an optional airbag, but this motorcycle is much too big and very expensive for a beginner to start with:””
This …. I still want to see a video of this… Air Bags on a motorcycle makes no sense to me. About the most I can think it would do is keep you from kissing the handle bars on your way over…. Unless its the same air bags the Mars Rover got to land on :^) .
