04-13-2016, 05:06 AM
Maybe you can ride like that where you live, but that is just unrealistic where I live. Rural hilly curvy country roads with a max 55 mph speed limit. The upper third of the rev range even in first gear would be exceeding the speed limit and I'm certainly not going to ride around in first gear all day just so that I can use compression braking. Personally I will use the excellent brakes the CB is blessed with. Out here in the country, come around a blind curve at high rpms in any gear and you just might nail a farmers combine, the back end of his pickup truck or a deer very hard, and any evasive action would most likely put you in a ditch, a corn field or the trunk of a 4' wide 75 foot tall oak tree. Racer boys have a short life expectancy out here, we don't see a whole lot of them.
and again, that's not saying the bike isn't capable of it, because it is, just not the right environment for it in my area of the country.
and again, that's not saying the bike isn't capable of it, because it is, just not the right environment for it in my area of the country.