Trail Braking Tutorial

[Grumpy Goat]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh4ipopUkKk

Decent video, which I have not seen before. Here is one by Nick Ienatsch which I also found quite good: https://youtu.be/Wvrgn5akOm4

When I took my MSF course the principal instructor was a Harley rider, and much of the information that he passed on was from the POV of riding a Harley, and frankly was plain wrong for riders of conventional motorcycles. Trail braking was a definite "no-no" and something to avoid at all costs.

Now I understand that the course was targeted at newbies so they don't want people to grab a fistful of front brake entering a curve or in a curve itself. Point is, for many people these thoughts would have influenced their muscle memory and habits so that there would be much misconception out there which would require much evangelizing by these rider coaches as noted above.

The RS (and BMW motorcycles with linked brakes in general) is very accommodating with trail braking and I have found that I did it even before I was formally aware of what the technique was called. It was nice to discover that it was a "thing" and I was not doing anything wrong. I am sure that my trail braking technique is not perfect, but it works great for me (except on gravel! ).