I find this topic quite interesting and the difference of riding technique here. Obviously most of us come from around the 70’s when the riding style was far different to what we see today.
I belong to a sports bike forum more the younger crowed and 90% of then will just pull in the clutch and use the brakes to come to a stop. I actually find this idea to be quite scary. Like most of you, here I always use the gears to slow down then the back brake and finally the front.
The biggest augment I get from the spots riders is well the brakes are so good nowadays that you do not need the motor to slow down. Only when I point out the obvious fact like so many of you have here what about being in the correct gear if your need to power out of a situation do they say, oh I did not think about that.
Therefore, it leads me to believe that somewhere along the line the riding technique has changed. Another scary thing is that they are now taught never to use the back brakes, as this is quite dangerous.
