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Linked Brakes
« on: 02 March 2010, 22:10:05 »
Only just realised the beemer has linked brakes  :-[

I have been riding how i was taught, so approaching junctions at say 70, i click down through the gears, using engine braking (which the boxer engine gives lots of)

I brake with rear brake first, slowly increasing pressure to back brake, then last, pull on the front, lightly at first, then more firm, depending on speed. (sometimes i hardly touch it)

According to manual, when you pull the front brake, both are applied. The ABS system works out how much to send to front rear, with normal conditions giving most to the rear (as i under stand it)

Should i switch styles? Only use front brake?  :-/
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Re: Linked Brakes
« Reply #1 on: 02 March 2010, 22:13:34 »
brake normally.  You may be on a proper bike one day ;)
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Re: Linked Brakes
« Reply #2 on: 02 March 2010, 22:16:15 »
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brake normally.  You may be on a proper bike one day ;)


PMSL, how did I know something that that would get said when I read the start of the thread.
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Re: Linked Brakes
« Reply #3 on: 02 March 2010, 22:16:23 »
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brake normally.  You may be on a proper bike one day ;)

As in rear first then front? Keep on using the rear brake for normal riding?
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Re: Linked Brakes
« Reply #4 on: 02 March 2010, 22:17:17 »
being 6ft4/5 the GS is a proper bike, everything else feels like a monkey bike
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Re: Linked Brakes
« Reply #5 on: 02 March 2010, 22:17:44 »
Both brakes ;)

Rear only purely for slow speed stability. And showboating ::)
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Re: Linked Brakes
« Reply #6 on: 02 March 2010, 22:21:19 »
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Both brakes ;)

Rear only purely for slow speed stability. And showboating ::)

ABS system won't let me do burn outs, unless i turn it off  ::)

Always have been using both, rear first, then front.
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Re: Linked Brakes
« Reply #7 on: 02 March 2010, 22:24:06 »
Use the brakes.

Pads are cheaper than gearboxes and designed with the primary (and possibly sole) purpose to slow you down, unlike gearboxes.  Brake off excess speed, select required gear through block changing then ride on.

Beemer got a gear indicator?

Most usefull and safe braking effect done by front, rear used mainly to drag for low speed manouevering.

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Re: Linked Brakes
« Reply #8 on: 02 March 2010, 22:25:20 »
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Both brakes ;)

Rear only purely for slow speed stability. And showboating ::)

ABS system won't let me do burn outs, unless i turn it off  ::)

Always have been using both, rear first, then front.
Front first, I've been taught, to load the suspension, then the rear.  If rear then front then likely to go the shape of the pear....
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Re: Linked Brakes
« Reply #9 on: 02 March 2010, 22:27:57 »
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Use the brakes.

Pads are cheaper than gearboxes and designed with the primary (and possibly sole) purpose to slow you down, unlike gearboxes.  Brake off excess speed, select required gear through block changing then ride on.

Beemer got a gear indicator?

Most usefull and safe braking effect done by front, rear used mainly to drag for low speed manouevering.

 :y


Yeah got a gear indicator, i try not to look at it, but got quite reliant on it  :-[

Had an off in my early days when i snached the front, with too much lock on, so been a bit hesitant ever since with the front  :(
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Re: Linked Brakes
« Reply #10 on: 02 March 2010, 22:29:03 »
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Both brakes ;)

Rear only purely for slow speed stability. And showboating ::)

ABS system won't let me do burn outs, unless i turn it off  ::)

Always have been using both, rear first, then front.
Front first, I've been taught, to load the suspension, then the rear.  If rear then front then likely to go the shape of the pear....

I was told rear first  :(  :-/

I use the rear on roundabouts / T-junctions, to stablise the bike a bit, slip the clutch if its a small roundabout, bigger ones i do just on the throttle alone
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Re: Linked Brakes
« Reply #11 on: 02 March 2010, 22:29:47 »
Use of brakes also informs other road users of what you are doing by means of the brake light ... whereas pure engine braking does not.......  :)
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Re: Linked Brakes
« Reply #12 on: 02 March 2010, 22:32:05 »
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Use of brakes also informs other road users of what you are doing by means of the brake light ... whereas pure engine braking does not.......  :)

I always use the rear brake, so that puts the light on  :y
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Re: Linked Brakes
« Reply #13 on: 02 March 2010, 22:33:34 »
Same as a car Tunnie, Learn to pass the test, then learn to drive properly and from the sounds of it a lot more safely, even as a non biker I would have started to use the front brake 1st, it makes more sence.  I would image a lot of riders having the new freedom of passing a test and getting a bigger more powerfull kike, there may have been a tendancy to gear down and brake from excessivee speed and therefore giving chance to lock the back wheel.
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Re: Linked Brakes
« Reply #14 on: 02 March 2010, 22:35:51 »
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Use of brakes also informs other road users of what you are doing by means of the brake light ... whereas pure engine braking does not.......  :)

I always use the rear brake, so that puts the light on  :y

So should the front these days..... :y
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