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Message: [QUOTE="High Lord Gomer, post: 814109, member: 16469"] I, too, hold the clutch in when braking for the same reason Shig does...also because I'm scared of killing the motor if I lock the rear wheel. I use two fingers though because I'm less of a man (or maybe because I don't work out my hands as much as him!). I failed to pull the clutch a few weeks ago braking hard while entering a turn on the road in the mountains. When I downshifted the back locked and stepped out. Luckily I'm used to making such mistakes and was able to laugh about it. A few years ago when I switched to the dark side I sent a question to Mike Young asking him is he ever used the compression braking of the 4 stroke to help stopping. Much like Shig, he said no, it was not as consistent or easy to control. [/QUOTE]