Originally Posted by FiftySix

Off road? I want both brakes.

I've mentioned my motorcycle days often. I rode both street and dirt on my own motorcycles from age 20 to 38.

I remember one day I'm at a motocross track and a friend of mine offers up his Kawasaki KX250. He mentions his front brake wasn't working correctly, but I take it out anyway. I'm just taking a familiarity lap to get a feel for the bike, blasting between turns but taking it easy over jumps.

After one blast of the throttle I know I'm not going fast enough for an upcoming double jump so I hit the brakes to make that double into two singles.

Big mistake. That front brake didn't work at all. I went over the first jump with not enough speed scrubbed off to make the jump a single and I was going too slow to make it a double.

I cased the bike on the second jump which threw me to the ground hard. Dang near got a concussion even though I was wearing a helmet and I lost most of the flesh on my left forearm.

Good times. Good times.