Trail braking?

[shmike]

Originally Posted by The Awesome

I thought the same thing the first time I saw pictures of myself on the brakes. I asked my suspension guy about it and he told me that unused travel is wasted travel. Just make sure that for any given track you don't ever bottom out. If you do, changes need to be made to accommodate.

I guess the logic in leaving a few mm to spare is making sure you don't bottom out. If you can get to full travel on the brakes that leaves no room left to absorb any bumps on corner entry.

Total agreement on all other points. There must be a reason we ran the same number.

[shmike]

For those that don't understand the concept of loading the front forks with the brakes and keeping that load while cornering, I found a decent pic of tipping it in.

In a sequence this shot would be about 50-100 feet after Awesome's pic.

As the braking forces fade the lateral forces take over: