Q&A for How to Brake Properly on a Motorcycle

Put your bike in first gear, hold the clutch with your left hand and you can put both feet down. Use the right hand to apply the front brake if sitting on an incline.

Yes. Apply both the brakes and clutch and promptly bring the gear to the lower position. The gear may be further shifted to neutral while you are standing.

You should apply the rear and front brakes simultaneously. Do not apply the front brake with too much force, as it could flip the motorcycle over the front wheel. Remember that the front brake, when used properly, provides upwards of 70% of your stopping power, but you should get to know your motorcycle before applying the front brakes too forcefully.

Yes, you should apply the clutch if you intend to slow down significantly or the engine may stall, causing the rear tire to skid.

First gear, and the traffic will dictate the speed. Motorbikes are different from cars in the sense that they have a wet clutch instead of a dry clutch. You can ride a wet clutch without too many problems, so riding in traffic at half clutch, those stop start situations wont hurt your bike. Just don't rev it too much.

If you're not moving in any gear except neutral and not holding the clutch, your bike will stall.

Only if the speed is reduced significantly and down shifting is needed. If not, applying the clutch is not necessary.

If you are coming to a complete stop or emergency braking, then bring in the clutch. If you are just slowing then there is no need for it.

Do the following steps simultaneously: squeeze the front brake, squeeze the clutch, step on the rear brake, and quickly gear all the way down to one.

When stopping on wet roads, it's necessary to favor the rear brake more than the front, as this will greatly increase your stopping distance. Use the front brake, but keep the pressure light and be ready to release it in a nanosecond. If you lock the front wheel, you're going down.

Inertia. Go to first gear, have the clutch on, slow down and don't brake so fast.

You will need to use the back brake, as the front brake slows the bike down significantly and also makes it hard to complete the turn.

Just hold the clutch let all the way off the throttle, and then brake until you are at a stop, then shift to first and and ease on the gas and let the clutch out.

If the front wheel locks up, you won't be able to keep the motorcycle up for long. Release the brake or you're going down. If the back wheel locks up, you'll hear a loud-pitched squeal and the bike will likely fishtail.

The best way to prevent wheel lock is to brake more slowly. If you are front braking, like most people do, apply a little bit of back brake when the front wheel locks. If the back wheel locks, do the opposite. If that doesn't work, but a bike with ABS to make your life easier.

Either way works, depending on how soon you start to slow down. If you see traffic slowing down way ahead of you and start to slowly decelerate, you can use the clutch to downshift one gear, ride in that gear for a bit, and then downshift to the next gear, etc. However, when quickly coming to a stop you normally just pull in the clutch and hold it in while you quickly downshift through all the gears.

No. Gently squeeze the front brake lever and apply the rear brake simultaneously whilst also applying your clutch, ensure that your throttle is closing. This will reduce the speed of the motorcycle. If you hold the front brake lever only, this will cause your motorcycle to flip over the front wheel.

You should apply the front brakes first slowly, then the rear brakes, and finally, use the clutch.

You can but if you are going too slowly, then you might stall out when disengaging the clutch.

Keep your handle bar and attention to the left. Don't forget to press rear brake when cornering turns. This will help you take any turns smoothly.

You are allowed to wear motorcycle gloves when driving it is helpful to also get grip and protect your hands, although this is not required.

When braking, alternate between your front and rear breaks while also downshifting/engine breaking. If you downshift correctly, you can come to a complete stop but it will take a longer distance to completely stop than it would if you use both your brakes and downshifting at the same time. Engine breaking is not bad for your bike if done correctly.

You should anyways start braking first them pull in your clutch. Alternate between using your front and rear brake whole simultaneously down shifting to slow your speed or come to a stop.

When riding uphill, your bike should be in a low gear so you can maintain the proper RPMs necessary so that your bike doesn't stall. If you're in a higher gear such as 4, 5 or 6, then you're going way too fast. Safety is everything when riding motorcycles. You shouldn't be riding uphill at such a fast speed where you encounter the problem in your question. Riding in a low gear up a hill gives you plenty of time to slow down to take that turn on a normal road without any problems.

The tuk tuks are manual transmission. The 'handle bar' style steering has clutch/gear shift on the left and throttle on the right side. There is a foot brake and the reverse gear is a lever on the right side of the driver's seat, like an old style handbrake.