great to get on your motocycle hopefully you got a good deal on it

Truth of the matter is, you should only ride as fast as you can see. As in KNOWING you can stop within the distance you see to be clear. With better technique and skill that distance shortens, so pace can go up, but in the realm of safety, good judgement will always outweigh pure skill.

I didn't mention downshifting in this one. It depends on the circumstance, a downshift can be very helpful in anticipation of having to brake hard. But if you need to emergency brake, worry about changing gears later. Just focus on using your brakes to stop you 👍

I'm not allowed to mention the "A" or "P" words anymore 😅😂

@@dillbey 75,000 miles of riding with no car crashes. The back brake at higher speeds can be lethal.

Rear brake can be pretty handy for moto gymkhana

@@dillbey Mature response. My bike doesn't have traction control or ABS. If I hit the back brake hard around a fast corner, it can high side the bike and send the rider flying.

@@BlackArroToonsif you slash your front brake, what happens? Also bad things. So…practice to not do that with both brakes! If you’re on a straight line and push hard your rear brake and lock it, your bike will go straight ahead if you know what to do and not to do and you’ll be ok. If you do the same locking with front brake, many bad things can happen.

⁠@@BlackArroToonsAny bad usage of whatever brake you use at higher speeds can be lethal!

The tips in the video are from my 15 years riding experience on varying motorcycle sizes/weights. They've worked for me every time in the best and worst circumstances. I stand by them. I did demonstrate moving forward slightly with the clutch was the easiest way to stay balanced, and this video was more about slowing yourself down rather than slow manoeuvres, however I should have been clearer on how the rear brake is used. I'll make a separate video about it in future. As for emergency braking, the "70/30" number gets thrown around pretty recklessly. Its not true whatsoever. Under hard braking, if you try using anywhere close to 30% of rear brake, it'll just lock up, and you lose all control of the back end immediately. It effectively teaches beginners to use their front brakes less then they should be! 90-100% of braking is done by the front brakes, most people aren't going to know what 30% on the rear feels like anyway, so how will they ever know if they're using enough, or too little? Its far too arbitrary. Besides, the front brakes are designed to be significantly more powerful, stands to reason why they're used to slow you down, rather than the rear. 70/30 is really out of date information, I struggle to believe this is still being taught for CBT... Two fingers on the brake lever is standard practice. It gets you into the habit of not panicking under hard braking, and applying too much at once. It makes progressive braking easier to manage. There are plenty of resources out there detailing all I've mentioned above. Thanks.

As an inginerd who's been riding for all of a year and a bit, I cannot overstate the importance of learning to "feel" the machine rather than blindly subscribing to one technique or another. Yes, that gets you past the baseline in terms of riding ability, but if that's all you learn you're still very much at risk, because you're near the limit of your abilities all the time. If instead you learn how to get every last bit of performance out of your machine (track days are good for that, moto gymkhana too) and carry on riding "normally", now you're in a position where you're maybe only using 5-10% of your ability. That's a MUCH better safety margin, leading to fewer "Oh sh!t!" moments. Any time you place a rigid rule on something, like 70/30 brake bias, you're automatically excluding consideration for situations where that rule will get you into trouble, for instance when there's so much weight transfer to the front, that your rear wheel is at risk of locking up. Then it may only be able to handle 2% of total braking effort. Conversely on something like a heavy cruiser or tourer (like an Indian, or a Goldwing), you'd want closer to 50/50 at the start, 60/40 by the time you've stopped, just because of the different mass distribution. This particular rule works at CBT/DAS level because most students are sh!t scared of applying enough front brake to achieve the weight transfer to break it (and rightfully so, most aren't smooth enough yet to get away with it if they did). So not adding rear at that point IS leaving stopping power on the table. Same for not touching the brakes in a corner. If you're smooth enough you can slow down quite a bit, even if you're close to the edge of the tyre. It's just that most people going through that process aren't that smooth yet, and many remain that way long after.

It's good to stand by them but different bikes have different abilities..... But not using a brake completely is very bad advice especially when newer riders should be learning to use them.

@@GoblinRides I'll see your 15 years and rase 45. I'm 53 and started riding motorbikes at 8yr old. I've raced enduro to club level, done trials as a hobby and a couple of track days. I was a motorcycle courier for 7 yrs and a cbt instructor for 6 months, (it trurns out i'm not cut out to teach) but yeah i'm gonna side with the instructor on this one. Learn to use both brakes bro. I've watched a few of your videos now and i've come to the conclusion your hearts in the right place but if you wanna teach new riders how to ride you should go do a few advanced rider courses and get out of a few of those bad habits you've picked up over the last 15 years. I'm not sayin i could do better, i have bad habits, but im not tryin to tell other people how to ride. Well more to the point, i'm not telling people don't use the back brake. See the thing about giving people advice that could be life or death is you never get feedback from the ones that died. Just like doing the wrong thing for 15 or 45 years, if it don't kill you you think you did it right. Maybe you just got lucky.

I’m not going to get into it, but please stop what you’re doing. Just, please.