Originally Posted by CBR600F4
And locking a rear really isn't that dangerous either. It's something you should have had to accomplish in a motorcycle safety course.
I do it all the time. Pull into a parking lot at speed and cut to left quick as you lock it up. Like you're on a dirt bike or something! Nice half circle patch left behind.................
Was it a brand new tire? If so, be careful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! New tires have to be broken in and are slippery as hell during the first hundred or so miles.
The tire is new, i took ur advice on breaking it in hundred+ miles before getting on it good. They didnt teach rear lock-ups in the class, just swerving and running over small obstacles. Bret told me to take it to a parking lot and do what you said. The tire was warm im sure, but it still needs to be broken in well, thats probably why it slid.
And it wasnt really a problem so i didnt come close to killing myself at all. Traffic was crawling slow as balls, i gave a wave to the other biker, and we had to stop. There were two lights that are back to back (this is on J. Clyde, where there is a waffle house). Part of the reason i hit the brakes so hard was to stop at the line of the light, but said fuck it and went through, but the rear had already started to slide, so i applied more pressure to the front and came off the rear a little as i was coming to a stop. It wasnt something where i was doing 55 and sliding to a stop or anything, it was a short stop.
The more i think about it, i think it was the tire, because ive applied the brakes like that before on the old tire and it didnt do that.