Covering the brake is designed for unpredictable situations because as all veteran riders know, surprises will happen.
Full disclosure: I feel a bit outside my comfort zone in terms of writing or blogging, as if you hurled a newborn giraffe on an ice rink and expected them to double axel. I’m a community college dropout who spent all of his tuition money racing motorcycles, ultimately building a career around two and four-wheeled transporters. I have over ten years of racing professionally in AMA and MotoAmerica, am a Senior Instructor with Yamaha Champions Riding School, and work with other motorsports schools and programs around the country.
Motorcycles are in my blood. In 1962 my grandparents started a motorcycle shop out of an old chicken coop outside of Rochester, New York, and Harv’s Harley-Davidson is still thriving to this day. I couldn’t imagine my life without bikes. This blog is the first of a series on riding safety, proper riding technique, and tales of the trade.
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