Rear break dragging

spimx
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3/26/2019 11:44am
I drag my rear breaks a lot through turns. I have heard both sides that it's good to do and bad to do. I've seen some pros on the rear break through turns and heard that pros are more free wheeling through the turns.

Who knows when to do it and when not?
How do y'all practice rear breaking in turns. I'm going to spin some laps without the rear break leaver this weekend and see how it goes.
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I trail brake as I'm entering turns. Sometimes it helps set up for the lines a little better. I'm never "dragging" the brake when I'm trying to accelerate out, however.
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I’ve been taught to never drag the rear. But I feel that dragging the rear brake keeps the bike settled in the ruts. I’ve watched Metcalfe do this before, as well as Dungey. Either way, each to their own. Both work really well it just depends on what is most comfortable for you.
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kb228
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3/26/2019 12:06pm
Dragging the front helps keep it planted.

I only use the rear when im braking before the corner
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3/26/2019 12:32pm
You should drag your front brake through rutted corners to help keep the front end from climbing out of the rut. I only grab the front brake when necessary. Not something you should do in every corner. I see no reason to drag the rear brake throughout a corner.
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3/26/2019 12:37pm Edited Date/Time 3/26/2019 12:39pm
We used trail braking a lot in road racing. It helped keep the suspension settled and helps with not tucking the front. I didn't do it in moto except on sweepers. It'd be pretty hard to drag the rear brake through a right handed rut with your right leg sticking out.

Edit: I always use it entering corners.
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In a deep rutted corner sometimes I'll be using all the controls at once - dragging front brake, dragging rear brake, clutch slipping, and rolling the throttle on.
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3/26/2019 2:11pm
Bikes dont have breaks unless something is broken.
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3/26/2019 3:05pm Edited Date/Time 3/26/2019 3:07pm
spimx wrote:
I drag my rear breaks a lot through turns. I have heard both sides that it's good to do and bad to do. I've seen some...
I drag my rear breaks a lot through turns. I have heard both sides that it's good to do and bad to do. I've seen some pros on the rear break through turns and heard that pros are more free wheeling through the turns.

Who knows when to do it and when not?
How do y'all practice rear breaking in turns. I'm going to spin some laps without the rear break leaver this weekend and see how it goes.
I drag the rear brake lightly any time I want to go fast through some rough downhill stuff, but I'm still on the throttle.

The chain torque pulls the rear end down and gives you a little more stability and keeps the bike from unloading if you hit a hard bump.

An example:
Last week at the practice track I went to, there was a big table jump followed by a left hand sweeper with a shoulder high hump in it and then a right hander. You couldn't launch the hump or you'd blow the right hander. I drug the brake up the face of the hump with the throttle nearly wide open where it had developed a bunch of chop from other guys just decelerating. It was worth a ton of extra speed over that section.


Exiting really rough rutted turns, a very light pressure on the rear brake can help keep the bike moving forward instead of popping up as you exit the rut and hit the hard acceleration chop.
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loftyair
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3/26/2019 5:58pm
It helps if there's a big bump that kicks the back end too high from rebound. Drag the rear to keep it from kicking so much.
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cody41
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You should be OFF the rear brake affter the first 1/4 or 1/3 of the turn, no later. When you’re dragging the rear brake you are not weighting the outside peg. This is a basic riding technique. Dragging the rear brake around the turn is simply bad technique.
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3/27/2019 9:08am
Jean-Michel Bayle would drag the rear brake out of turns... won SX, 250, & 500 championships in 1 year I believe.
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3/27/2019 9:13am
As PSG11 says, always trail brake in until the apex and then accelerate out.

Helps keep the bike in the rut and it lowers the front forks so it tightens up the geometry and makes the bike turn in better and hold the line better.
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cody41 wrote:
You should be OFF the rear brake affter the first 1/4 or 1/3 of the turn, no later. When you’re dragging the rear brake you are...
You should be OFF the rear brake affter the first 1/4 or 1/3 of the turn, no later. When you’re dragging the rear brake you are not weighting the outside peg. This is a basic riding technique. Dragging the rear brake around the turn is simply bad technique.
On certain corners this doesn't apply, if you look at KR94 especially, he drag s his back brake an awful lot , around the whole turn , alot of other top pro s use to do the same , RV did it alot . For me when its tacky I let the back brake off early , but when its hard pack and slick dragging the back brake around flat and berm corners works really well , but it is hard to do . In ruts I only drag the front. Or none at all. But dragging the back around turn s is deff a technique used by alot of top, top pros , ie KR ,ET ,RV ,Everts, JMB, CP 377 etc etc

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