Trail Braking Derangement Syndrome

Heard of trail braking long ago, but can't remember if I tried it. Anyway, I generally avoid touching the rear brake at highish speeds when I have a good front brake. Lighter flywheels and higher compression provide good engine braking, which does something similar to lightly using the rear brake. I think some people believe it works the other way around, but a heavy flywheel and its associated inertia combined with low compression is going to want to keep spinning when off throttle. Then again maybe I'm the only one that has experienced that engine braking difference, and my riding style could be different, but nothing special. I do front brake into turns kind of deep, but I'm generally smooth, so it's not that hard to hold a line on a light weight old Norton. I did not watch the video.

My brake light switch is on the Magura front brake lever perch.
 
I started to watch it but his corners and bends were pretty smooth, long and can handle high speeds, as well his bike handles pretty good, have ABS braking and all the gismos related to modern bikes, our old Norton's don't have all that stuff but most do upgrade the suspension and brakes system on our old bikes to handle a lot better with other upgrades, but come over where my mates and I ride up in the ranges, with tight corners, short straights, big drop offs the side and lots of bush/trees if you did lose it as well big down and up hills to travers, you need different skills to ride our range roads at speed, different conditions means different style of riding and most of our ranges getting up to 115 mph you be dead.
Braking in corners no way where I ride and using your own skills for our tight twisties is more important and having your bike set up right for those tight twisties, learn how to slow your bike down without using brakes for the next corners as well using the torque of your motor to get you through them tight twisties, but then my hot 850 Featherbed is built for the tight twisties, its light, has great front brakes but as I say I never use or touch them while riding our mountain ranges, but if I did use them it's because I have too much speed before the next tight corner, but no I been riding our great mountain ranges all my riding life and all on my Norton and Triumphs I have owned and most of my mates ride sports bikes and good skills, never see any brake lights when we are all riding these roads and we do push our bikes to their limits, we ride hard and fast and we know each other's skills.
 
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