-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:16:32PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > The myth about not touching your front break or you will a spectacular > endo over your handle bar is a nice folk tale but almost completely > wrong. Doing an endo depends on how well you use your hands to keep > yourself in the right place and take your weight a bit back when > needed. It all a matter of control. My girlfriend thought so too until > I convinced her to start using the front break and now that she does it > properly she is going several times faster since she's got the > confidence she can actually stop when she needs to.
I just keep well-tuned brakes and don't think about it anymore, since I can pretty close to stop on a dime up to about 20 MPH on my bike using the rear brake alone. I've endoed using the front brake before: If you're on a bicycle, it's just not intelligent to go slamming on the front brake, you sit too high and forward on a machine too light to do that without flipping it. Bicycles are unstable vehicles by design, no reason to make it more so. 30, I can still stop on a dime still mostly on the back brake using the front for help. Another thing the front brake has going against it is you can't hit it while you're signalling, and in most jurisdictions, you can get a ticket for not signalling. > As for down hill, I ride quite a bit of free ride, not so much downhill > since unfortunately I don't have the money for the big hit bikes, but > the steeper the terrain the more I use the front break since the rear > wheel has almost no traction on steep terrain. Because you're leaning forward already! > BTW, once you start to get good control you can start doing the really > fun stuff like lifting your rear wheel and driving just on your front, > or doing a whip tail bringing your rear wheel around in tight > switchbacks, etc. I still bring the back wheel off the ground even mostly using the back brake if I'm not watching it. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : http://ursine.ca/ `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian. Because it *must* work. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAPN3xUzgNqloQMwcRApmlAKCWbN6/VAzqN3LVqWj3msoll81CuwCfWvH9 G22MuGq8Xbi68UoHy9WMv8I= =NbYo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
