COLDSTONE1298
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People will go on their bikes out to far away deserted roads to practice and do top end runs or races from a roll.
People will go and risk all on curvy backroads and some will do whatever it takes to go to a track to practice and perfect their cornering technique.
Very rare you hear of anyone talking about improving their braking technique. Which can be done on any random parking lot early on a sun morn or late evening. Long straight backroads with no traffic can help too. It'll take one hell of a peon of a cop to ticket you for practicing emergency braking. If so a lawyer should take care of it easily.
You may eat through brakepads more doing weekly or bi-weekly practice sessions braking hard on a monster like the busa or ZX-14. Lot better then medical or parts bills. Has saved me alot from the idiot "Good samiritan" drivers that, while in the fast lane of a two lane 45mph business road, will suddenly come to a complete stop to let someone who just got on the road and is in the turning lane move into the fastlane.
Good braking and quick countersteering and accelerating helped in stopping me from crashing into them and then becoming a sandwich from the cage behind me.
Besides that, always expecting the worst from all drivers helps. No matter how suttle the situation might be. Car turning left way ahead of you while your doing 55mph might be a heap that'll drop half it's exhaust in your path...providing it doesn't stall instead. Always let 'ol murphy's law have some insight on your decisions when riding. It can help alot.
People will go and risk all on curvy backroads and some will do whatever it takes to go to a track to practice and perfect their cornering technique.
Very rare you hear of anyone talking about improving their braking technique. Which can be done on any random parking lot early on a sun morn or late evening. Long straight backroads with no traffic can help too. It'll take one hell of a peon of a cop to ticket you for practicing emergency braking. If so a lawyer should take care of it easily.
You may eat through brakepads more doing weekly or bi-weekly practice sessions braking hard on a monster like the busa or ZX-14. Lot better then medical or parts bills. Has saved me alot from the idiot "Good samiritan" drivers that, while in the fast lane of a two lane 45mph business road, will suddenly come to a complete stop to let someone who just got on the road and is in the turning lane move into the fastlane.
Besides that, always expecting the worst from all drivers helps. No matter how suttle the situation might be. Car turning left way ahead of you while your doing 55mph might be a heap that'll drop half it's exhaust in your path...providing it doesn't stall instead. Always let 'ol murphy's law have some insight on your decisions when riding. It can help alot.
