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VIDEO DEMONSTRATION: Why grabbing front brake+Turning=Bad

Postby tim » Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:36 pm

FF to 2:15 and watch the right hand and the front forks :kuda:

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Re: VIDEO DEMONSTRATION: Why grabbing front brake+Turning=Bad

Postby ijuschill » Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:10 am

Good find Tim, she went down hard.
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Re: VIDEO DEMONSTRATION: Why grabbing front brake+Turning=Bad

Postby StuMiller » Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:16 am

Bugger...... :oops:
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Re: VIDEO DEMONSTRATION: Why grabbing front brake+Turning=Bad

Postby Blurr » Tue Nov 03, 2009 9:08 am

Why grabbing front brake+Turning=Bad


not always. If you learn to do it right it becomes a handy skill ;)
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Re: VIDEO DEMONSTRATION: Why grabbing front brake+Turning=Bad

Postby tim » Tue Nov 03, 2009 9:27 am

Blurr wrote:
Why grabbing front brake+Turning=Bad


not always. If you learn to do it right it becomes a handy skill ;)


I've done it "smoothly" to wash of speed when there was something unexpected in the corner, but not "GRABBING" it ;)
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Re: VIDEO DEMONSTRATION: Why grabbing front brake+Turning=Bad

Postby robracer » Tue Nov 03, 2009 9:36 am

She survived.......... that was a huge grab ...... the instructor should get his tockley out & she can grab that too :roll: :lol:
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Re: VIDEO DEMONSTRATION: Why grabbing front brake+Turning=Bad

Postby tim » Tue Nov 03, 2009 10:17 am

robracer wrote:She survived.......... that was a huge grab ...... the instructor should get his tockley out & she can grab that too :roll: :lol:


:lol: haven't heard that word for 10 years!
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Re: VIDEO DEMONSTRATION: Why grabbing front brake+Turning=Bad

Postby seiko1 » Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:06 pm

:lol:
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Re: VIDEO DEMONSTRATION: Why grabbing front brake+Turning=Bad

Postby timmyrocks » Tue Nov 03, 2009 3:59 pm

:lol: ouch
anyone can go fast in a straight line,,,,

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Re: VIDEO DEMONSTRATION: Why grabbing front brake+Turning=Bad

Postby gpxpunk » Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:48 pm

:oops: damn that poor lady lol. :lol:
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Re: VIDEO DEMONSTRATION: Why grabbing front brake+Turning=Bad

Postby IsleofNinja » Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:54 pm

Think with her level of ability (as in what she is really able to do as opposed to what she thinks she is capable of) she might have been well off to lose quite a bit of speed for basic training exercises IMO. :roll:




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