Re: [ST] Rear Brake

[Matthew Heyer <matthewheyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Agreed here on the street aspect.  Definitely a big plus on hills, or even in general holding the bike on any incline or decline while stopped (so you don't have to hold the front brake while at a stop light for example).  
 
On the track, it is heavily used by all of us when we make off-track excursions.  Much less likely to dump the bike using the rear brake to slow down.  With so much weight on the front end, and so little on the rear, even down shifting gets the rear wheel hopping as there is little traction there - that is until you roll on the throttle as you start the turn to unload the front tire - and then, you wouldn't be braking.
 
And when it appears that that ridiculously good racers "back it in", it appears to me that they are using the rear brake a bit to get the bike turned, and it also appears to be on the highspeed turns - which consequently makes further sense in using it to assist bike turn-in.  Now this is truly a ridiculously advanced technique, as even the fast of the fast racers in my club don't use this technique (hey, I would guess from watching the races that less than half of the AMA guys use this these days - maybe an advanced technique that is still more of a style thing than a definite time saving technique).
 
Matt Heyer


----- Original Message ----
From: Andrew Tait <antait@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 8:21:16 AM
Subject: Re: [ST] Rear Brake


Masiak, Richard wrote:

> I was thinking this morning on the ride into work.  What is the rear brake on a motorcycle used for besides keeping down a wheelie?

Moving away on a hill, braking in slippery conditions, and making the 
cage behind you think you're braking as you wind open the throttle and 
disappear over horizon.

Not that we ever play games...

:)

A

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