RevZilla photo. Trail braking can be difficult to learn and practice, especially for novice motorcyclists. Trail braking also loads the front tire heavily with braking and steering forces, but when done incorrectly, trail braking has the potential to overload the tire with those forces. Front tire slippage, especially mid-turn, is generally a bit more difficult to recover from than rear slippage.
Trail braking, like many other techniques used in motorcycling, may prove more effective for some riders, motorcycles, and roads than others. Probably the best place to learn trail braking is in one of the track-based riding schools that teach the technique or at a track day, with the advice of a more experienced control rider.
Trail braking can be learned or practiced on the street, with a caveat: aggressively trail braking on the street may reduce your safety margin considerably, especially if road surfaces are not ideal and other vehicles are present.
Try it out safely! Navigation Menu. Wish List. Please reference our International Shipping Policy for details. International Shipping Policy. Self-Service Returns. Doesn't fit? Don't love it? Not only did they not teach it, they said it was the wrong way to drive. I did okay in the first three races, but I knew I was missing something. There were a couple of drivers who were consistently faster than me, and I eventually figured out that it had something to do with my braking and corner entry speed.
I decided to do something about it. I headed for a quiet industrial park late at night in my street car, and began playing with my braking as I entered corners. I tried applying and releasing the brakes early, before I turned into a degree right-hand corner. I tried leaving the initial application and release of the brakes later, so that I actually turned into the corner while slowly easing up on the pedal. I tried releasing the brake pedal slowly, then quickly.
I experimented, and took mental notes of what happened — how the car turned into the corner, how much grip it had, how much speed I could carry through the corner, and whether it helped or hurt how early I could get back to the throttle to accelerate out of it. Then I got out of the industrial park before the cops showed up! It was also the support race for the major event, the Formula Atlantic race, with drivers like Jacques Villeneuve brother to Gilles, uncle to the Indy and World Championship-winning Jacques.
That weekend I took my industrial park lessons to the track, and changed how I braked in my Formula Ford. I found that I could move my entire brake zone — where I started and ended braking — further into the corner, and that I was now slowly relatively speaking releasing the brake pedal as I turned into most of the corners.
I won that Pro Formula Ford race. I had a chance to work with that well-known school later in my career, and I learned something. If I had come back for more instruction, they would have taught me to trail brake. As with all techniques, trail-braking is a tool to achieve a desired result. It allows a driver to carry more speed into a corner and still hit the apex for early throttle application. Send questions for future articles to [email protected]. Sunday, November 14, Sign in.
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