How do you like to decelarate?

[Statler]

in the tunnel.    from 11K.

[mitt]

Just be careful downshifting hard, especially on cold tires, wet pavement, or descending a hill.  It is real easy to break the rear tire loose and hard to regain traction.

mitt

[jim_0068]

Just be careful downshifting hard, especially on cold tires, wet pavement, or descending a hill.  It is real easy to break the rear tire loose and hard to regain traction.

mitt

rev match or let out the clutch smoooooooth and slooooooow. fixes that problem. Plus i have found that with the v-twin that rev matching really isn't as important for "normal" speeds because of the smaller rev range.

[Popeye the Sailor]

I don't like to decelerate.



Must...go....faster...

[Monsterlover]

thats my ebay name

[duccarlos]

I look for trees. The most effective way to decelerate.

[ODrides]

I look for trees. The most effective way to decelerate.

Breaking without braking.

[DucofWestwood]

my bike's manual specifically recommends engine braking, so i take them up on it!  plus, of course, it sounds great and every once in a while i get a nice back-fire pop. 

+1 to what someone said about lighting up your brake lights to let the people behind you know you're stopping. 

overall though i've found the exhaust note to be the best way to alert cars of my presence - whether slowing, passing, or whatever.  hardly ever use the horn.  it sounds so wimpy.

[hadesducati848]

downshift until I'm 5 feet from light and slam on the front brakes. 

if the rear tire dosent rise at least 3 feet then your not doing it right.

[Mr Earl]

When, as a much younger man, I posed this question to my dad, he said,"Would you rather replace your brake pads or rebuild your transmission?"  I've kind of gone with that logic since, although that sweet decel note is hard to resist.

[ute]

i hammer that baby down like it was a 2 stroke

thanks god for the slipper on the s2r

[justinrhenry]

Engine braking - that's why I have nearly 30k on my brake pads!

Saving $30 brake pads at the expense of your clutch doesn't seem like a great trade off to me.  I'd rather have to replace brake pads and rotors anyday. 

[The Bacon Junkie]

Saving $30 brake pads at the expense of your clutch doesn't seem like a great trade off to me.  I'd rather have to replace brake pads and rotors anyday.  

I've got 43,000 miles on my Duc. I've had no problems with my clutch, no problems with my tranny.  Those of you who have ridden with me know I'm not exactly gentle with my Rosie.  

Most of the time when slowing for a corner I'll pull in the clutch, blip throttle/click down a gear simultaneously, let out clutch while on the brakes.

If I'm in tighter stuff, I'll just stay in second and let the compression slow me down and just dab at the brakes.  I engine brake...  A LOT!!!     (see sig line)

For around town, just rolling off the throttle provides plenty of slowing action as you're coming up to a stop or gentle curve.  Obviously, I use the brakes to come to a complete stop.  

If you do it right, engine braking ain't gonna hurt the motor, clutch, or tranny.  just my $0.02


...oh yeah, I almost forgot, engine braking with Carbon Termis sounds like Thor is coming, and boy is he PISSED!!!   

[WetDuc]

Cool, a lot of really interesting perspectives on the subject mixed with some humorous replies as well.
I think I'm going to continue engine braking when I want to, I might try to lay off the real hard engine braking a bit.
My opinion is the tree method previously mentioned sounds like a fantastic idea, great stopping power and no parts to replace ever.

[Pip]

My opinion is the tree method previously mentioned sounds like a fantastic idea, great stopping power and no parts to replace ever.

Paging NAKID to the deceleration thread, now paging NAKID to the deceleration thread please.

Not a tree, but similar in effect.