JD_MXRacer
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High Lord Gomer said:I have purposely landed front wheel first when kicked sideways in the air. My thinking, and it has worked for me, is that I can land with the front wheel travelling in the right direction and the rest of the bike seems to folllow it. When I land sideways on the back tire it tries (sometimes successfully) to slam the bike down on the "forward" side.
High Lord Gomer said:The danger of stalling is more from the fact that if the front drops too low you can't rev the engine to bring it back up. On some longer jumps I've seen A riders alternate between tapping the brake and revving the engine several times during a single "flight" to keep the bike close to level.
Two reasons for not hitting the front brake in the air are that you cannot restart it spinning if it drops too low (though you can rev the egnine to counter that), and that turning the bars with the front wheel spinning allows you to move the bike around in the air because the spinning front wheel has gyroscopic properties.
Having said all of that, a rider much faster than me (Jeremy Wilkey) said once that he sometimes uses the front brake in the air.
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