Great info and well written too! Keep it coming and stay in the groove--you'll make it!

 

Great Job Stro... Love the write up. I did the RLAP and it just wet my appetite for better riding. I am envious...

 

Go Stro! Thanks for sharing your experience it is very interesting! I teach EVOC for coppers and I believe your information on braking with non-ABS vs ABS on the scooters. With non ABS you get a true threshold brake where with ABS it is letting your wheels turn a bit more extending your stopping distance.

Thanks again and good luck in mastering the head and eye control. Feels weird but once you get it life will be great!! Looking forward to additional reports...

 

Man, I am totally inspired to become a better rider. Thanks for the great writeup and the inspiration.

 

Great write up. Quit looking down. The ground isn't going anywhere, you are.

 

Great write up.

Excuse my ignorance, but would these exercises be more difficult on a Softail Custom, with a Wide Glide front end?

Could you even get the pegs to scrape on that model bike (FXSTC)?

Thanks

 

On the ABS bikes were you slamming on the brakes as hard as you could or were you doing the same as you would on a non-ABS bike?

Thanks for the the great info, I have been checking out all the police motorcycle videos on youtube, very impressive riding. I look forward to hearing more about it.

 

Great post stro, makes me want to head to the nearest empty parking lot and practice.
Look forward to more, and good luck!

 

I don't know. I'm sure you could scrape the boards but I'll bet the turning radius wouldn't be quite as tight as that of a touring bike just based on the steering geometry.

 

For the demo they were braking the ABS bikes as hard as they could to show us how it worked, I was surprised at how much stopping ditance it added. Now for the actual exercise, those with ABS eqipped bikes were threshhold braking and, I think, did as well as the rest of us. It was only after ABS kicked in that stopping distance was added. I should have explained that better. I'm not opposed to ABS, I think it's probably a good idea, especially when you add wet pavement to the equation.