How would you go about laying your bike down?

[Kerry_129]

Everybody knows plastic/aluminum/chrome has a higher coefficient of friction than brake pads & rubber.
'Nothing I could do, so I laid it down' = don't have a clue how to brake/countersteer hard (stomp the rear & fishtail) - in the vast majority of circumstances.

[Rider]

Originally Posted by Kerry_129

Everybody knows plastic/aluminum/chrome has a higher coefficient of friction than brake pads & rubber.
'Nothing I could do, so I laid it down' = don't have a clue how to brake/countersteer hard (stomp the rear & fishtail) - in the vast majority of circumstances.

Sometimes all the braking and counter steering in the world won't help you when a dump truck is blocking the entire fucking road.

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by Kerry_129

Everybody knows plastic/aluminum/chrome has a higher coefficient of friction than brake pads & rubber.
'Nothing I could do, so I laid it down' = don't have a clue how to brake/countersteer hard (stomp the rear & fishtail) - in the vast majority of circumstances.

And most people who think it's all about locking up the rear and performing a fashionable Hollywood "hockey stop" have no clue about how fast they could stop using proper threshhold braking instead. And besides that, why would you want to slide under a vehicle or guardrail, breaking a few ribs and possibly getting run over or drawn and quartered by the guardrail? I'll keep myself upright and brake in a straight line, thank you very much, because it will always stop faster than a lowside/hockey stop/laydown/whatever you want to call it.