For any mechanics or car guys out thereIs a control arm the same thing as a radius arm? Just different terminology?
Hi, no they are not the same control arms are what the stearing moves to turn the wheels. Radis arm come from behind the front wheels and attach form the fram to the bottom A arm and they hold the wheels in posistion and stop wheel movement forward and backwards. Cars and trucks have them good luck tim
You hear different things from differnet people. You can rev match as your downshifting and you shouldn't be engine breaking at all. Honestly what I do is not really shift down through the gears except in certain circumstances. I normally just pull in the clutch and glide to a light or stop sign and just quickly click down through all my gears. I've asked some people if this is unsafe and everyone I have talked to says they do it a lot of the time too.
the way i learned to ride, is use the brakes only when you have to the rest of the time, engine braking is best. and it is. however something tells me you're going about it wrong. you're supposed to be reving your engine before letting the clutch back out after down shifting of course you lose speed, that's the point. but you're not just slamming your bike from higher speeds to lower speeds. i don't even have a spedo, so i obviously don't do anything by speed or rpms. i do it by sound and knowledge of how fast my bike goes in each gear with time and practice my 'instincts' have become more well honed, i can engine brake my bike to a slow steady stop, without jerking
sounds like a ford truck ! no the radius arms and the control arms are different ! the control arms is where the ball joints are at and the radius arms bolt to the control arms and the other end to the frame !
control arms are not radius arms
