RibEye
Senior Member
The idea is to get a "feel" for the stop. After a long ride, you have to be a bit more careful. Habits save your bacon, so develop them. Always use both brakes in normal braking (not on curves), then, as you slow to near stop, come off the front brake entirely, and feather in with the rear brake. Your front brake will drop you like a rock in slow speed manuevers. Habitualize covering it, but not actuating it until you get your speed over a speed determined by feel and experience, or to a complete stop.
In shooting, reducing the target size helps alot, so do so with your scoot. What I mean is to begin practicing the last few feet so that you don't have a discernable "stop" jerk at the very end. Then, get used simply lowering your left foot to the ground, and keeping your right foot on the brake. Almost what you want to do is see how long you can go without putting that foot down. You don't want that feeling of having your front forks compressing at that last stop point, the weight of the fairing makes that an uncomfortable feeling. Also, get over the front brake squeeze as you feel the bike seeming to dive one way or the other. You will only make it worse. Back brake only at the very last. If you practice lowering only your left foot, you will have the right foot and rear brake available, and won't "have" to grab the front. If, on the rare occasion, you need that right foot to touch base with the ground, OK, but work to make it rare, and get it back up on the brake as soon as you can.
Also, if momma don't choose to wiggle around during slow speed manuevers is a real plus.
Enjoy,
Rich P
In shooting, reducing the target size helps alot, so do so with your scoot. What I mean is to begin practicing the last few feet so that you don't have a discernable "stop" jerk at the very end. Then, get used simply lowering your left foot to the ground, and keeping your right foot on the brake. Almost what you want to do is see how long you can go without putting that foot down. You don't want that feeling of having your front forks compressing at that last stop point, the weight of the fairing makes that an uncomfortable feeling. Also, get over the front brake squeeze as you feel the bike seeming to dive one way or the other. You will only make it worse. Back brake only at the very last. If you practice lowering only your left foot, you will have the right foot and rear brake available, and won't "have" to grab the front. If, on the rare occasion, you need that right foot to touch base with the ground, OK, but work to make it rare, and get it back up on the brake as soon as you can.
Also, if momma don't choose to wiggle around during slow speed manuevers is a real plus.
Enjoy,
Rich P