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The rear tends to lock up pretty easily in the wet or under hard stops. Fortunately, the rear locking isn't nearly as catastrophic as locking the front.Originally Posted by Razor Ramon
When you brake, the weight balance of the bike (and you) moves toward the front tire--that's why the front of the bike "dives" lower than the rear. This shift in weight balance takes weight off the rear tire which in turn makes it easier for the rear tire to lock up. Without weight on the rear tire, it doesn't have much traction. Consider that the ultimate effect of weight balance moving forward is that the rear tire comes off the ground (a stoppie), in which case you'd have zero traction and the tire would "lock up" with any application of the brake. That's the extreme, but any weight balance shift leading up to that is another degree in that direction.
That's pretty rad. A lot of times, custom builds look poorly proportioned but that actually looks pretty good.
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