nesobriquet
Well-known member
Re: Is it wrong using rear brake in a (slow or standing start) corner ?
This statement indicates that even as a self-professed noob, you actually grasp what is going on under your butt at slow right hand turns from a stop or near stop, better than most other so-called 'experts' commenting here.
In fact, this control can be easily proven. Just take any bike in a parking lot and do steering lock turns. Hold it right on the lock. Use of rear brake while feathering (or not) the clutch and throttle and will let you do controlled turns till you are dizzy. No rear brake turns will have you constantly not able to hold the bike on the steering lock.
Many bikes in the last.. almost decade, that are not fuel injected are tuned very lean in attempts to meet emission regs. The 250r is really cold blooded, and a full 3 to 5 min warm up would likely cure these carburation woes on slow turns.
Hope you don't mind..I added a key pc of info in your subject line to help avoid confusion and bad advice. I notice already that some people have not realized you were talking about a 2 to 15 kph turn.
Use of rear brake is even taught by some some instructors in parking lot maneuvers (speeds), as it not only steady's positive throttle input of a bike not carburating smoothly, but also to help avoid levering themselves over from too much front brake with zero counter-steer available.
This statement indicates that even as a self-professed noob, you actually grasp what is going on under your butt at slow right hand turns from a stop or near stop, better than most other so-called 'experts' commenting here.
In fact, this control can be easily proven. Just take any bike in a parking lot and do steering lock turns. Hold it right on the lock. Use of rear brake while feathering (or not) the clutch and throttle and will let you do controlled turns till you are dizzy. No rear brake turns will have you constantly not able to hold the bike on the steering lock.
Many bikes in the last.. almost decade, that are not fuel injected are tuned very lean in attempts to meet emission regs. The 250r is really cold blooded, and a full 3 to 5 min warm up would likely cure these carburation woes on slow turns.
Hope you don't mind..I added a key pc of info in your subject line to help avoid confusion and bad advice. I notice already that some people have not realized you were talking about a 2 to 15 kph turn.
Use of rear brake is even taught by some some instructors in parking lot maneuvers (speeds), as it not only steady's positive throttle input of a bike not carburating smoothly, but also to help avoid levering themselves over from too much front brake with zero counter-steer available.
