This is quite informative, the jury's still out on this for me, time & place for it maybe? I fully understand all the science of it, but was never taught it, not even in many of the Police training courses I've taken.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RA3NSoOfto
Yeah thanks for that video. I thought he has a few pretty interesting points particularly with his practise regimes. But where can I find a wide open space to do that learning?
By the way I am in agreement with Rancidpegwoman too, in relation to the TR7 because I don't really think it's set up well enough for any of that kind of stuff. The front brake simply doesn't pull you up enough to even barely consider pulling up in a corner so you have to ride with that handicap if you want to chance it. As we all know, riding these old beaters, we basically ride by the seat of our pants and many have enough Rat in us to avoid catastrophe for many a decade.
It's enough to go for a blatt down the road and if the brakes stop me at the intersection then that's a blessing. Otherwise we have to take evasive action.
I remember when carbies had a habit of unscrewing on top which shot you straight onto FULL THROTTLE after the slide popped out.
In those days we had to have a weather eye on the clutch and woe betide the boy who didn't wire up a kill switch, for he would see the pistons emerging out through the head or the con rod throwing the leg out of bed.
Some ended up going through walls because they were too stupid to pull in the clutch.
I guess it was a selection process.
These days things have got safer in some ways and much more dangerous in others.
There's so much more traffic these days which makes everything perilous.
But modern bikes, specially nice ones, have very good brakes and suspension but correspondingly they go a lot harder.
But you all know this well, stating the bleeding obvious is one of my foibles, so sorry for bringing modern riding into sharp focus over here where we mostly struggle to even get the old beast running sweet.
However I do think it's worth going to all that trouble to get the forks and shocks right and then to strive for a well functioning braking setup and probably modern tyres. Once that's achieved it's probably time to check some of these modern ideas out because they have been thinking and learning a lot since our old bikes were made.