Originally Posted by waybo418

I was taught, about 100 years ago, in a motorcycle safety course, that about 72 percent of a motorcycles stopping power is in the front brake. I have heard those percentages move as high as 90 percent, but you get the idea. That is pretty much all i use to stop with. The OL knows if my right foot comes up, we are stopping hard and she needs to hang on.

Alot of riders, myself included, forget what we were taught and develop many bad riding habits. The simple fact is that those bad habits could kill us. It is easy for someone to say that they ALWAYS assume that everyone is trying to kill them, but I doubt that anyone ALWAYS does anything. We all get tired, wet, cold etc. and could drop our guard.

I am so glad that everything turned out okay for you. We have all been there. I am hopefully going to use this as a reminder to myself to be as alert and viligant as I can.

Originally Posted by skratch

you illustrate this point perfectly. if you're doing a hard stop, you really need to use your rear brake in conjunction with the front brake. it will stop you in a much shorter distance.