That's a good tidbit.Nibblet99 wrote:Not trying to disagree, but briefly bringing the clutch to the bitepoint, moves them enough, and is far quickerbok wrote:not saying this is a bad way to do it, but there is one problem. every once in a while the gears won't line up well and once you are at a full stop you can't shift down without rocking the bike forward or back.We get taught the priority is stopping, so we go down the line of quickest stop possible... Then shift to first whilst stationary, check all around and move to a clear area.
Here the official message is "pull the clutch and start banging on the shifter as you concentrate on braking" ... idea is to make downshifting automatic like a nervous twitch. In theory once trained the rider will downshift without realizing what he has done. In the few real-world hard stops I've done I always wound up just hitting the clutch and concentrating on braking/avoiding the cause of the braking though.
I suspect the UK MC training is pretty well thought out in most areas. As I understand it from 'net reading, attention is paid to being able to use the [rear] brake into and through a turn. Is that right? One of the major holes in my MSF-supplied education was how to handle complicated down-grades that converted to turns... after a few scary moments I wound up reading something British (;)) about braking in turns which helped quite a bit.
