100bhp Power Limit!

[fastdruid]

Originally Posted by Dicky Ticker

Stu---Nobody is stopping you from speeding but it is a FACT,they have already dropped a lot of rural roads from 60 to 50mph

My fav route to work used to be NSL, it is now a 40. Apart from a short stretch which is now 50 and a very very short stretch which is still NSL.

I used to religiously obey 30's 40's, 50's and just go a little mad from time to time in NSLs, now I'm getting to the point of "f*ck them".

Druid

Originally Posted by fastdruid

It doesn't need riding on a track it just needs the will (or effort) to do it. I was good at braking well before I was doing lots of trackdays.

The other year I took a few learner friends to a car park and got them to practice emergency stops, by the end they had *halved* their stopping distances! I also found that the VFR750 will stop 1ft later than an RVF400 from 30mph, the RVF is limited by keeping the rear on the ground, the VFR by grip and suspension. Locking the front wheel adds 1-2m to stopping distances.

On the road I practice by braking early but hard, by aiming to be at a certain speed by a certain limit and by well braking hard.

Druid

There comes a point where it doesn't matter how good you are, you just simply cannot react/control your reflexes quickly enough. That's where ABS comes in even for skilled riders.

Originally Posted by Stu

Are we supposed to give in to that too?


Confidence to try it, but it could stop you achieving it IMO the rear wheel spinning in the air at the old speed while the front wheel slows down? All ABS will do is recognise the differential in wheel speeds & cut braking power to the front.

Or alternatively, combined abs - rear wheel in the air is also braked so it stops, you then have no abs control on the front

The new ABS systems are sophisticated enough to be able to distinguish between locking the wheel and trying to pull a wheelie.