Well, Danno, I suppose I'll just keep making my "mistakes", utilizing both my engine and brakes to properly slow down before and during each corner.
I'm curious to see your qualifications, other than "I'm hella fast on the streetz, bro," that lead you to believe you're entitled to be imparting performance riding advice. You eschew track riding techniques as suicide, leading me to believe you haven't had enough time at a track to understand exactly what's being taught. The riding techniques used at a race track, when utilized with prudence, will save your life. Given that you're recommending double yellow sign speeds in corners, you clearly are riding fast enough to need comprehensive skills, not just throttle control.
Corner speed is essential, as you clearly believe. Yet you seem to assume that coming into your corner fast enough to need the brakes is a mistake. Your corner speed is irrelevant to your initial speed or subsequent deceleration. Brakes or compression, both are just techniques to slow the bike down.
The brakes are also used for changing the geometry of the bike during your tip-in and trail-braking. As the weight transfers forward, your forks compress, decreasing your trail (thanks for the correction, sickninja) and allowing the bike to transition more rapidly from side to side. Engine braking alone is by it's very nature the same as using only the rear brake. This leads to lazier steering characteristics.
Braking also loads up the front, which gives you better front end feel and grip, as the contact patch of the front tire is much larger.
I'd posit that the guy who comes in hot, using both the brakes and compression, setting up his entrance speed and trail braking in is a far better rider than the guy who lets the compression alone slow him down to the same corner speed. The guy using the brakes is also going to be a MUCH faster rider overall, assuming he's capable of comparable cornering.
But hey, what do I know? Just keep on coasting. I'm sure the fast guys will save you a seat at breakfast.
* Last updated by: TRAILBOSS on 6/24/2014 @ 9:41 AM *
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