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[electricsheep]

I did CSS last week and I got to ride the Brake Bike. What an awesome piece of kit. It is basically a bike with big outriggers fitted so that it won't fall over.

The aim of the drill is to lock the front wheel and then release, demonstrating that locking the front does not have to cause an off, sounds easy ..

First I watched a fellow student. The first few attempts he just pull bigger and bigger stoppies. After some hints from the instructor he tries again at a higher speed and produces some impressive front wheel skids. Another few tries and the length of the skids decrease (this is what youre trying to do)..

I was amazed that he combined a stoppie and a skid at the same time, doesn't even touch the outriggers down. Must be a riding god.

Now it's my turn. It pretty much goes as above. My stoppies are not as high, but with more speed I get the skids going. I even manage the front wheel skid during a stoppie.

It not till the end that I realize that I didn't touch the outriggers down either. Most people don't, they just provide the confidence you need to lock the wheel.

Great fun..

[Desmondo]

Sounds pretty cool, need to have a go on that

[bazzer sps]

I locked the front on my bike by accident (the line of traffic i was following stopped without notice) i might add it frightened the kin life out of me but as the the front started to tuck i released the brake and the bike sorted it self out thank god if that was not enough i had to brake hard again immediately afterwards this time the front skidded in a straight line and was able to avoid reshaping the rear end of Boxter i was following.I was doing about 50mph at the time

[David Cook]

The amazing thing is that they have around 60psi in that front tyre and still some people can't get it to skid!