The Ultimate Brakeless/Front/Rear/How many brakes? thread

When braking mega fucking hard, get your arse over the back of the bike. Helps for 2 reasons.

1. Less likely to endo/chuck yourself over the front.
   
2. You can get the rear wheel to help you stop. More weight on rear wheel, more normal force and thus more friction and ultimately quicker stopping. (especially with some who has such a large arse as me).
   
   

Two brakes on a SS, If the front or rear fail you can take it slow and still get home safe. Otherwise you are using your feet either in the wheels or on the road to burn off your speed.

Surely it's best to put your weight forward making sure you're within the limits so you don't fall over, if you're in the position where you're going to chuck yourself over the front then you're really not that good at handling your bike.

When I was getting in the habit of skip stopping I remember I was slowing coming up to a side road (just incase someone was to pull out) someone did pull out, and as I was lifting my rear wheel off the ground I instinctively pulled the front brake, meaning my rear wheel came much more of the ground than i'd intended, but I didn't go over the handlebars, I realised what i'd done and let go of the brake.

I don't think that means I have super reflexes, I think the majority of people who ride should be able to do that, it's a complete mystery to me how people can throw themselves over the bars by braking.

"You can get the rear wheel to help you stop. More weight on rear wheel, more normal force and thus more friction and ultimately quicker stopping."

I don't get this bit, if you're talking about friction in braking, then it's much easier to get more friction from the front, which is why a front brake only will stop quicker than a rear brake only.

As a lot have said already, use the rear for controlling speed, and the front for stopping.

But yes, always 2 brakes on an SS.