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Unless you modulate your braking, by the time your front brake is achieving maximum deceleration, your rear end will have lifted off the road and rotated at some speed, pivoting around your front axle (clockwise as viewed from the drive side) so that your mission workshop bag will then be rubbing on the tarmac a couple of feet ahead of your front wheel. This will cause further deceleration and possibly a drastic shortening of your wheelbase, life expectancy etc.