Fingers on brake?

was92v · 12-16-2008, 08:32 PM

I grew up using 4 on the brake because you had to or the damn thing wouldn't stop. As brakes got better I started backing off. Now I use two most of the time. Track riding pretty much required it since I needed to blip the throttle between down shifts and brake at the same time and it just became natural. Sometimes in a panic or sudden braking situation 2 seems, for a millisecond, to not be enough, but it is.
I use 4 on the clutch. Always have and have ridden many bikes that required it. Always covered the clutch with at least two fingers when I raced 2-strokes, but not so much on4-strokes. 2-strokes have a nasty habit of seizing up just as you roll back into the throttle pulling out of the apex and spitting you off like a watermelon seed. Sometimes you can get the clutch in before the launch and mutter "shit" instead of "OH SHIT" in mid flight.

View Poll Results: How many fingers on the front brake?
1	3	5.66%
2	41	77.36%
3	2	3.77%
4	7	13.21%
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12-16-2008, 08:32 PM	#1
was92v Nowhere Man Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 558	I grew up using 4 on the brake because you had to or the damn thing wouldn't stop. As brakes got better I started backing off. Now I use two most of the time. Track riding pretty much required it since I needed to blip the throttle between down shifts and brake at the same time and it just became natural. Sometimes in a panic or sudden braking situation 2 seems, for a millisecond, to not be enough, but it is. I use 4 on the clutch. Always have and have ridden many bikes that required it. Always covered the clutch with at least two fingers when I raced 2-strokes, but not so much on4-strokes. 2-strokes have a nasty habit of seizing up just as you roll back into the throttle pulling out of the apex and spitting you off like a watermelon seed. Sometimes you can get the clutch in before the launch and mutter "shit" instead of "OH SHIT" in mid flight.