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Braking
Gagmewithaspoon Started conversation Apr 15, 2000
Suffering from an injured knee after a fall after listening to advice about braking a motorbike.
Do you brake a motorbike's front wheel using two or four fingers ?
Why ?
Braking
JJ42 (2^5+(6+6)-2=42) Posted Aug 31, 2000
Hi
I tend to always have 4 fingers on the brake lever, I think I have a better feel for the amount of braking this way.
It also gives you more power in your grip if you really need to drop the anchor, and this is possible to do, going straight with ABS-brakes, without having to fear a lock-up of the wheel.
And that was both on the new R1100RT (which is 282kg fully tanked according to the books, but that's another story)
and the old R80 (even though it didn't have ABS, of course)
What are your experiences in this matter?? You seem to hint at something going wrong somewhere?
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