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Old 25-Sep-2006, 20:28   #1
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Hmm, pushing the front is where your transferring your body weight under braking through your arms (which generally are locked) to the bars and down to the front wheel, hence pushing.
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Hmm, pushing the front is where your transferring your body weight under braking through your arms (which generally are locked) to the bars and down to the front wheel, hence pushing.

Pushing the suspension down just works against the fork spring and it "pushes" back against you, I doubt you can press a fork enough to compress it enough to have an effect on the wheel, if you did it would be bottomed out and more than likely the front wheel is losing tyre contact and bouncing, hardly what you want mid corner. you can load the front more with your bodyweight being transerred forward but that is not pushing the front ,it alters weight distribution and the rear will slide easier because there is less eight over it. As fordie says its when the tyre starts to lose grip you asre pushing the limits of tyre adhesion, typically downhill corners or holding too much front brake too late, its about slip, contact patch and grip not where you push.
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