helix66, on 15 March 2012 - 10:04 PM, said:

I rode exclusively like that for about a year.  But that was because my KDX80 ran through the front and rear brakes in a day, so eventually we stopped replacing them .  I had to ride at the back of the group and wait for everybody else to be out of my way, because while I could go slow on a downhill, I usually couldn't stop.  I got in the habit of covering the kill switch, because it was easy to accidentally bump start it.

Don't know if it was a lemon, adjustment, or if we wore the hubs out in the sand (we were riding Red River Motorcycle park, lots of riverbeds to ride in), but pretty sure it wasn't technique, because I never had that problem on any other bike.

And no, it's not better than using the brake, although I am better at downhills now than most people I ride with, and I attribute that to riding with no brakes 20 years ago.

dmikel, on 28 March 2012 - 08:22 AM, said:

Hey that guy getting bucked off at 1:30 in the video was totally me lol.

and that guy at 2:30  holy crapppp that sucks.