08-22-2016, 12:43 AM
The troubling thing about all this is that not many riders start in the dirt or on small bikes any more. They have no idea how to control a slide on either wheel and are relying on ABS to handle everything. [url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=9177&pid=144734#pid144734]And all it does is to release the brake to avoid a skid. There are more ABS bikes on the road than ever before, especially in the large displacement categories, and yet this is where we see more accidents than ever.
Motorcycle riding is a fading art: that lovely, delicate balance of floating between the two contact patches, managing brakes, throttle, body position, drifting, leaping, cavorting on a machine that feels a part of you. This calls to mind Malcolm Smith; there's a [url=http://www.themalcolmbook.com/new/the_book.htm]fine biography on the man written by Mitch Boehm. Reading about Smith, or Spencer, or Roberts is soon going to be like reading about the pioneers, or Wyatt Earp.
Motorcycle riding is a fading art: that lovely, delicate balance of floating between the two contact patches, managing brakes, throttle, body position, drifting, leaping, cavorting on a machine that feels a part of you. This calls to mind Malcolm Smith; there's a [url=http://www.themalcolmbook.com/new/the_book.htm]fine biography on the man written by Mitch Boehm. Reading about Smith, or Spencer, or Roberts is soon going to be like reading about the pioneers, or Wyatt Earp.