Originally Posted by TenHut

You start with gentle pressure on the front lever gradually giving the lever hell. When you apply gentle pressure the weight of the bike shifts forward. The front tyre now gets more contact patch to take more braking input. Thats the only reason why you should be gentle first and then you MUST go on increasing the braking( with more contact patch the tyre has enough braking traction to take a lot of braking abuse).

Grabbing the lever in panic braking doesnt allow the front contact patch to widen and hence the front skids. Its not because the force was too much. The same force if applied after making sure of the front contact patch will stop the bike without the front skidding.


Keep the contact patch concept in mind and now Imagine the tap-release-tap method. You will brake the front..the bike will dip..then you will release the front..the bike will shoot up. The contact patch which was widened during the dip has now disappeared cause the bike has shot up. Now you will brake again only this time you have even lesser contact patch. I am sorry but thats Bullshit. You are also makign the front forks jump up and down. How will they help you in maintaining the traction up front ?