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Message: [QUOTE="High Lord Gomer, post: 919947, member: 16469"] Not quite as effective, since it is stopping a lesser mass and transferring that rotational momentum to the rest of the bike. The biggest two drawbacks of stopping the front wheel are: 1: You can't restart it spinning if it drops too far. I've seen good riders go back and forth between tapping the rear brake and hitting the gas to level the bike out while in the air for a long time. 2. Having the front wheel spinning gives it some gyroscopic action that lets you use it to move the bike around by merely turning the front wheel. Once you stop the front wheel, you lose all of the gyroscopic action. I have also heard that it can be tough landing with the front wheel not turning, but I think that is due more to losing the gyroscopic action just before landing than it is to the front tire not rotating just as you land. [/QUOTE]