In My Dreams ...

.... my next bike is a Blackbird. Now as I was coming through a little town
called Chemilly-sur-Yonne [1] the other day, there are three junctions, two
of which are 'prioritéàdroite', and the remaining one which isn't. ****
knows why they just didn't make all three of them the same, but ours is not
to reason why.

As I approached the junction that _isn't_, i.e. the junction where I'm
supposed to have right-of-way, WVM shot up from my right, and stopped with
his nose poking out of the junction. I jabbed the back brake, and the rear
wheel locked, and slid out to my right. I lifted my foot, the rear came
back into line, and well, I'm still here to tell the tale.

Back to the Blackbird. How does a situation like that work when your
brakes are 'linked', i.e. when you hammer the back brake, both front and
rear discs are brought into play ? Does your front lock up ? I'm less
than fascinated at the prospect of ending up tarmac-surfing when I try to
bleed off speed with the back, and have my front wheel go out from under
me.


[1] http://www.chemilly.com/

 

genuine_froggie wrote:

Why would you hammer the back brake, sounds more like a reaction learned
from driving a car than riding a bike.

 

I have not noticed any faults when braking very hard, but I still like
the idea of *me* choosing which brake to apply. I like to use the back
brake to scrub a little speed of when cornering a little too fast than
I would like.
By the way, the only time I have thought my front end would wash out
was when I overcooked a corner on the fells roads, over a crown in the
road and suddenly a corner. I managed to slow before the corner and
just after going into it, I accelerated quite fast. Felt wierd, but
worked ok, SO wasn't that chuffed though.

 

It's well established that he doesn't know how to use the brakes
properly on a bike.
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Well, it was a 'manner of speaking', really. I do use the front brake
more and more, but on that occasion, the ground was slippery, I don't
have ABS, blah blah blah, I 'made the call', as they say, and it seemed
to be the right one, as I stayed upright.

 

**** off, twat.

 

As I mentioned, it was a 'figure of speech'. Chemilly is near farmyards
(christ, the whole fucking region is), and so the ground was very
slippy. Anyway, that's besides the point: the question remains, i.e.
why do Honda do a bike that has the front brake applied, when the rider
presses the back brake lever ?

 

Just to annoy you Des.

 

Ah.

 

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It would appear to be Des.

So you are indeed correct.

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Since binning the FJR, it's more or less that. However, I've given a lot
of thought to that episode, and have realised that I'd braked with the
front before, and to be honest, have done since. I can thus arrive at no
other conclusion than that I binned the FJR because the road had diesel or
something on it. Which on the one hand 'absolves' me of some of the
fuckwittedness, but on the other, means that it could happen again.

But in the main, the bin was 'beneficial', because I'm a lot better at
anticipating now, so that I don't _need_ to slam on the anchors in the wet.
Plus I use a lot of engine braking.

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