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Originally Posted by Nick Mystic  I wouldn't worry about doing much emergency stopping until you think you have a pretty good feel for your machine. When you attempt to do hard braking it is important to be able to tell when you are approaching the point where your wheels are about to lock up and start skidding. I don't think you can reasonably expect to be able to make this determination until you've logged some miles on your bike under non-emergency conditions. You definitely don't want to go out to one of your early practice sessions and end up dumping your new scooter doing an emergency stop due to a wheel lock up that you had no idea was about to happen. |
I will disagree here. The last thing you want to do is learn how to do an emergency stop in an actual emergency. I would rather lay the bike down in an empty lot than eat a rear bumper of the car that pulled out in front of you. Tab B has some good points on how to practice by starting slowly and gradually increasing. That should reduce the likelyhood of dropping the bike.