Motorcycle Braking Techniques You Were Never Taught | Beginner Braking Tips | Kawasaki Ninja 125

[@realjakefox]

Just got myself a Ninja125 as first motorbike. Mine has the single seat cover, arrow exhaust and smoked windscreen. Great bikes!

[@eastbrook1227]

great to get on your motocycle hopefully you got a good deal on it

[@chrysovalantiskamprogianni541]

Hey Goblins, great video but did you mention downshifting or did I miss it? Can be life-saving in emergencies. Along with using front and rear brakes, that is

[@233kosta]

Truth of the matter is, you should only ride as fast as you can see. As in KNOWING you can stop within the distance you see to be clear. With better technique and skill that distance shortens, so pace can go up, but in the realm of safety, good judgement will always outweigh pure skill.

[@GoblinRides]

I didn't mention downshifting in this one. It depends on the circumstance, a downshift can be very helpful in anticipation of having to brake hard. But if you need to emergency brake, worry about changing gears later. Just focus on using your brakes to stop you 👍

[@badboyere100]

This is an awsome bike i had one when the first came out had to sell die to personal circumstances. Hopefully will be getting my new one soon. All the best and be safe out there.

[@BlackArroToons]

Two fingers on the front brake is also what I do, leaving them resting there and ready at all times. Good tip!

[@sameerkharade7750]

Isn't mirror bar a very unstable place to place the GoPro on?

[@chrisp8448]

Steady mate, you might need an ambulance. Plenty of parking though......lolol

[@GoblinRides]

I'm not allowed to mention the "A" or "P" words anymore 😅😂

[@joshhiroti]

Nice finding channels that POV driving left hand lane

[@ransomedavis2208]

Thats a cool bike . do you think you,ll go on to get a full licence ?

[@fixit9844]

This is his wife’s bike, he already has a full licence. He uses it for these beginner videos because it’s a similar bike to what beginners are going to be starting on.

[@IndigoJo]

How do you power that GoPro? Is there a way of charging it off the bike's battery or do you just recharge it when away? I've heard that some bikes (like the current popular Honda 125) have no charging socket at all, which is a surprise in 2024.

[@LamontCantey]

It’s easier at a crawl to use the back brake an clutch an throttle

[@seanf31]

Your shiftwork is so fast (grabbing clutch and the relaxing throttle), it's like you're doing it in a second when you're up and down shifting, we're supposed to do it that fast? I thought it had to be veeeeeery slowly like I watched in other videos

[@Amanabouba]

Thank you

[@BlackArroToons]

Good points about the importance and power of the front brake and avoiding the rear brake on emergency stops for regular non-traction, non-anti lock brakes! And good point about bad drivers too. Thanks. On smoothing to a gradual stop at under 5 mph, that's the only time I'll use my rear brake. When I was learning to ride in 2003, a car pulled out 20 yards in front while I was doing 50 mph and I panicked, hitting my front and rear brakes heavy, which locked up (tires stopped spinning/tires started sliding) both brakes and then the handlebars tank-slapped rapidly back and forth till I eased up lightly on my back brake, which stopped the tank-slapping and finally got traction to smooth it to a stop just in time to avoid impact with the bad driver who decided to stop in my lane while making a left turn. That was the last time I chose to use the rear brake with the front to stop quickly. Plus the rear brake is bad during fast turns especially.

[@BlackArroToons]

@@dillbey 75,000 miles of riding with no car crashes. The back brake at higher speeds can be lethal.

[@233kosta]

Rear brake can be pretty handy for moto gymkhana

[@BlackArroToons]

@@dillbey Mature response. My bike doesn't have traction control or ABS. If I hit the back brake hard around a fast corner, it can high side the bike and send the rider flying.

[@carlostomas3698]

@@BlackArroToonsif you slash your front brake, what happens? Also bad things. So…practice to not do that with both brakes! If you’re on a straight line and push hard your rear brake and lock it, your bike will go straight ahead if you know what to do and not to do and you’ll be ok. If you do the same locking with front brake, many bad things can happen.

[@carlostomas3698]

⁠@@BlackArroToonsAny bad usage of whatever brake you use at higher speeds can be lethal!

[@carlostomas3698]

Pure lack of training using both brakes! That’s why, even with your “years of experience”, you still defending the practice of using just front brake for more strong braking (emergency ones included). Forget about 70/30 rule or whatever numbers are (if you have combined braking system/linked braking system, they’ll do the math for you). Why the hell the rear brakes exist? Not only for low speed maneuvers. It has some stoping power. Use it! Try starting with rear brake, then front brake and pull the clutch only at the very end. What will it do? When rear brake starts to work, the rear suspension lowers and avoids more sudden transfer of the weight to front wheel and estabilizes the bike more as you progressively squeeze the front brake. This allows to have more time to use also the, much less effective but it’s there, power of rear brake added to the more powerful front brake. As the weight moves to front wheel the rear brake loses completely its power, so release the rear brake as the front brake (and some engine brake) is doing all the work now. It’s seems too many things to do? No problem: practice and see the difference. You’re locking the rear brake? Practice until consistently you don’t , same with front brake. Have ABS? Practice until you know it will kick-in. You can stop quickly without ABS intervention. About using the engine brake, it will depend on the bike and circumstances. But the “solution” is: continuously practice with each bike you have. One thing for sure: never, never use only your rear brake to slow down quickly at higher speeds! Anyway, I really appreciate the time and effort you take to give your knowledge to others. Commendable!

[@PubRunner]

Generally a good video and reminded me of a few thing but Sorry you lost me at “don’t use the rear brake in an emergency stop” that advice will get someone seriously injured or killed. If you have to stop use the lot. Just don’t stab at it. In an emergency stop progressive braking is really important so you don’t overload your suspension and tyres. The wait for the weight thing where you start to brake, you feel the weight of you and the bike move forward then you apply a lot more pressure to pull up. It’s when you surprise your tyres and suspension that the tyres will loose traction. Then you’re in trouble. Every road surface is different so the rate of brake pressure is different. Emergency stops need to be practiced even in a car. Personally I did the carpark practice then found an empty country side road and practiced emergency stops there up to the 100kph speed limit. I must do it again on my new bike. I started on a Ninja 250 so no abs and now ride a Kawasaki Z650RS. With a few other bikes in between. Still a really good video and the rest is on point, especially the anticipation advice. Well done. 👍

[@Rideitoutyoutube]

As a cbt instructor ......... so many of these techniques are very wrong..... slowing down balancing without power and rear brake?? slow ride controls buddy... makes the bike far more easy to balance. emergency braking.. i cringed hard buddy! 70% front 30% rear..... absolutely use your rear brake but learn the finesse of it rather than just completely avoiding a brake system! that's dangerous and daft!......your bike is also cbs for the exact same reason! so if you don't use your rear brake your safety feature is saving you where you failed. pulsating pressure is abs kicking in saving you from a lock up meaning you're totally dependent on a safety feature. front brake should not even be considered at slow speeds either, complete hands off the levers no front brake. anticipation part was good except 2 fingers, come off with two fingers and you run the risk of snapping the other 2 and their knuckles. you don't have to pressure with 4 but you want to get in a habit of having 4 over the lever. the dvsa would strip me of my license if i used your methods. i appreciate the effort and time into a well put together video though. however the information to new riders is really not safe dude. no rear brake in e stop?? what would be the point of having it? trail braking? lean percentages? research the use of the rear brake and youll see just how much you should be using it. the video is well put together but the advice dude.

[@GoblinRides]

The tips in the video are from my 15 years riding experience on varying motorcycle sizes/weights. They've worked for me every time in the best and worst circumstances. I stand by them. I did demonstrate moving forward slightly with the clutch was the easiest way to stay balanced, and this video was more about slowing yourself down rather than slow manoeuvres, however I should have been clearer on how the rear brake is used. I'll make a separate video about it in future. As for emergency braking, the "70/30" number gets thrown around pretty recklessly. Its not true whatsoever. Under hard braking, if you try using anywhere close to 30% of rear brake, it'll just lock up, and you lose all control of the back end immediately. It effectively teaches beginners to use their front brakes less then they should be! 90-100% of braking is done by the front brakes, most people aren't going to know what 30% on the rear feels like anyway, so how will they ever know if they're using enough, or too little? Its far too arbitrary. Besides, the front brakes are designed to be significantly more powerful, stands to reason why they're used to slow you down, rather than the rear. 70/30 is really out of date information, I struggle to believe this is still being taught for CBT... Two fingers on the brake lever is standard practice. It gets you into the habit of not panicking under hard braking, and applying too much at once. It makes progressive braking easier to manage. There are plenty of resources out there detailing all I've mentioned above. Thanks.

[@233kosta]

As an inginerd who's been riding for all of a year and a bit, I cannot overstate the importance of learning to "feel" the machine rather than blindly subscribing to one technique or another. Yes, that gets you past the baseline in terms of riding ability, but if that's all you learn you're still very much at risk, because you're near the limit of your abilities all the time. If instead you learn how to get every last bit of performance out of your machine (track days are good for that, moto gymkhana too) and carry on riding "normally", now you're in a position where you're maybe only using 5-10% of your ability. That's a MUCH better safety margin, leading to fewer "Oh sh!t!" moments. Any time you place a rigid rule on something, like 70/30 brake bias, you're automatically excluding consideration for situations where that rule will get you into trouble, for instance when there's so much weight transfer to the front, that your rear wheel is at risk of locking up. Then it may only be able to handle 2% of total braking effort. Conversely on something like a heavy cruiser or tourer (like an Indian, or a Goldwing), you'd want closer to 50/50 at the start, 60/40 by the time you've stopped, just because of the different mass distribution. This particular rule works at CBT/DAS level because most students are sh!t scared of applying enough front brake to achieve the weight transfer to break it (and rightfully so, most aren't smooth enough yet to get away with it if they did). So not adding rear at that point IS leaving stopping power on the table. Same for not touching the brakes in a corner. If you're smooth enough you can slow down quite a bit, even if you're close to the edge of the tyre. It's just that most people going through that process aren't that smooth yet, and many remain that way long after.

[@Rideitoutyoutube]

It's good to stand by them but different bikes have different abilities..... But not using a brake completely is very bad advice especially when newer riders should be learning to use them.

[@muttznutts7465]

@@GoblinRides I'll see your 15 years and rase 45. I'm 53 and started riding motorbikes at 8yr old. I've raced enduro to club level, done trials as a hobby and a couple of track days. I was a motorcycle courier for 7 yrs and a cbt instructor for 6 months, (it trurns out i'm not cut out to teach) but yeah i'm gonna side with the instructor on this one. Learn to use both brakes bro. I've watched a few of your videos now and i've come to the conclusion your hearts in the right place but if you wanna teach new riders how to ride you should go do a few advanced rider courses and get out of a few of those bad habits you've picked up over the last 15 years. I'm not sayin i could do better, i have bad habits, but im not tryin to tell other people how to ride. Well more to the point, i'm not telling people don't use the back brake. See the thing about giving people advice that could be life or death is you never get feedback from the ones that died. Just like doing the wrong thing for 15 or 45 years, if it don't kill you you think you did it right. Maybe you just got lucky.

[@Hverbpro]

I’m not going to get into it, but please stop what you’re doing. Just, please.

[@felixramsey4239]

"promosm"

[@JDMz]

The ninja isnt cbs. Its abs😂

[@tonyjones8149]

This is how you stop. Slam on tue front break and stomp the rear. Lets ABS do the rest Hey, you stopped. Didn tk 24mins to explain that did it It a damn push bike inside levers and speed.

[@233kosta]

Kiss and squeeze 😉

[@whyserious9082]

i m having hard time using back break at all..