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Sunday, November 27, 2011

Riding Care (Post 2) - Breaking on Turns

Adding to posts on Riding Care...

Breaking is highly unsafe on turns. Probably I do not understand exact physics behind it but mostly I think the reason is
 - When you apply breaks tyres slip over the surface and friction is lost
 - I think because of loss of momentum (linear of whole vehicle body and rotational momentum for wheels) the balance goes down.
 - Two tyres of bike have different accelerations, lets say if first tyre experiences higher breaking and rear tyres at the same time experience acceleration then on the turn the bike will loose balance. The net effect is loss of balance.

Always try to judge before turn and always avoid breaking on turns.
If you think that you need to lower speed on turn judge it before turn and apply breaks before turn.




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