nklr= laying it down

[Gary Ott]

--- In DSN_klr650@egroups.com, "Dennis Angus" wrote:

> Folks, some riders are smart enough to lay a bike down. Maybe those

that

> question such an action, aren't

It doesn't take a ot of "Smarts" to lay a bike down. Inexperience will do just fine. In 41 years of riding I can remember "laying a bike down" only a couple of times. That was when I first started riding. Then I figured out what I was doing wrong. Skip Faulkner describes the dynamics very accurately in post #6633. This also describes a panic stop by someone who has little experience with the front brake, or is afraid of the front brake. A motorcycle doesn't stop very well on it's side. It tends to skitter.I don't know how to even begin to control one on it's side. I didn't have much success those couple of times that I was down. One of the reasons they make tires out of rubber is that they are relatively sticky,ergo-good stopping characteristics. Oh, Yes. If I had known how to use the front brake on that old Triumph, those two times would have been nonevents. Gary