Use of brakes & throttle on hillstarts??
 

This may be crapola but here goes : how does everyone do a hill start ? I hold it on the front brake with 3 fingers and work the throttle with thumb and forefinger. This prevents me using mitts or lobster claw gloves in winter. I have been told that CBT tells you to use only back brake and no front brake. I passed my test in 1980 and can't remember what I was taught, perhaps I started off correctly but drifted into bad habits ?? What do other riders do ??

I tend to do similar to you, but I do a little "palm and thumb" throttle thang learned from years of filtering through London traffic. Enables you to wear whatever gloves you want.

Other than Nanoo-Nanoo jokes, though, those weird gloves are too weird for me...

:)

I hold it on the front brake until just about to pull off, then use the back brake, release front and clutch/throttle up releasing back brake when I've found the biting point.

Can't do it your way, my hands are too small. :lol:

I sit on the back brake till the clutch bite has enough to hold the bike on its own, then its just throttle...

I do the front brake thing too but they won't have it on a test.

Back brake and let clutch out until I can feel it bite, then ease off back brake and away you go. Easier than blinking. :D

yip same as halonic

back break here too!! (that might be why I need to get them changed so often though :oops: )

I was told to hold it on the back brake until the clutch bits and pull off safely.

Did my test last year.

Had no hills in the fens, but elsewhere I use foot on back brake slowly release clutch til biting and use throttle to zoom off into the sunset. I tend to use the back brake as a sort of handbrake when stopped anyway.