riding skills OMG moment

[turboguzzi]

it's 2026 and is this is how people still ride? 

with all the advanced rider training there is out there, you'd think it would stop, but no.... 

amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Lr1dKCNw4

[guzzisteve]

Even the police crash eh, didn't watch vid.

[Antietam Classic Cycle]

What the video is about: "The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) said they’re seeing motorcycle crashes in the valley where riders only use their rear brakes."

[DoubleGuzzi]

".. they’re seeing motorcycle crashes in the valley where riders only use their rear brakes."

The eejits need Guzzi linked brakes, they do.   

[PeteS]

I rarely use the rear brake. Have to say the rear brake on the V85 is pretty wimpy. With 5000 miles it should be broken in by now. Anyone try HH pads or find something better?

Pete

[Kev m]

The eejits need Guzzi linked brakes, they do.   

For more than a decade Harley touring bikes have used an electronically linked system where the ABS module applies brakes to both front and rear circuits if braking starts above a certain threshold (35 mph on my last one, but I've heard other years might have had a lower limit).

Anyway it meant I could one finger haul down that 800+# beast or, if so inclined, just stomp the pedal (not that I did,). It was a cool system.

If you started braking below the threshold both circuits remained independent but ABS was still active.

[Turin]

I didn't realize the front/rear had to lay it down brake myth was a thing anymore.

[turboguzzi]

I didn't realize the front/rear had to lay it down brake myth was a thing anymore.

yep, that's what shocked me too..... you have to ask yourself how the myth is transmitted from generation to generation :)

sure there are outliers like linked guzzis, harleys, goldwings and what nots, but for the rest, using your right hand fingers still seems like a challenge, ABS notwithstanding.   

[Dr. Enzo Toma]

The rear brake on my V7 850 is also pretty wimpy, though switching to aftermarket sintered pads was a slight improvement.
There's a reason many countries have graduated licensing for motorcycles, and require combined braking or ABS especially on the lower displacement learner bikes.

[bronzestar1]

I didn't watch the whole video, but that just proves Darwin's theory is alive and well.  Less drips from the shallow end of the gene pool...

[MikeP996]

It's hard for me to believe that anybody who has ridden a motorcycle for more than 20 minutes hasn't figured out that the front brake's stopping power is an order of magnitude more effective than the rear. Heck, it's exactly the same on a bicycle!

  I know folks who don't use the rear brake but I've never met anyone who doesn't use the front brake though I've heard about them.  Maybe I haven't met any "rear brake only" folks because they aren't around long...