with regards to braking, i use the front heavily with the rear to stabilize, unless i am in a bend or turn, then the front is modulated to keep the line in check.
The rear should be used with the front, but front 60-70 even 80%, with rest going to the rear.
Practise emergency braking on open roads if you dont wanna suffer a lock up or a slide. Once you keep doing it a number of times, your body and mind might just remember the right way to brake in an emergency.
One main point that i would like to mention is, If you can ride your bike in traffic using minimum brakes, you are riding very efficiently.
The more brakes you use, the more energy is wasted ( the energy consumed by burning the fuel to get to the speed). So if you are cruising with traffic, and use brakes to a minimum, and start using gaps and lanes to your advantage ( keeping an eye out on your rear view mirrors ), and minimize the use of brakes, you will automatically be wasting minimum fuel simply accelerating all the time. You will carry more speed in. Coast to a halt, no need in reaching the red light and jamming the brakes.
Keep your distance, you will brake less right behind vehicles, and hence no fuel wasted again for accelerating and coming upto speed.
Also it will help increase the life of your brakes.
I have done it for three years everyday Gurgaon - Delhi via MG road, and have consistently gotten mileage of 42-45 kmpl from my Tbird, even 52 +
And it was not that i was crawling at 45-50, i was with traffic, but keeping below 80, between 65-75.
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