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Originally Posted by Viffermike
Actually, a bike can stop quicker than a car when conditions are dry and clean and is operated by a skilled rider. But that's rare on high-traffic public roads ... so, yeah.  |
I'd say it definitely depends on the situation. The problem with stopping a bike....more to the point a sport bike....is the issue of the relatively small contact patch of the skinny front tire and physics with the back end wanting to come up (stoppie).
It definitely takes a skilled rider to get all of the braking performance out of a bike. There's a guy who corner works at VIR when I'm down for the Superbike School. The dude is stupid fast. He was telling us how he was braking hard going into turn 12 before dropping elevation into the roller coaster. He said he had the rear end up in the air and muscled the bike over into the right turn corner. Wish I could have seen it.