Originally Posted by waterrockets

If late braking is faster, what's the latest you can brake? Well, that answer is going to involve trail braking. If you slow yourself enough initially so that you can take the hardest part of the corner at that speed, then the early part of the corner has you going too slowly.

This is where racers can get into trouble by assuming "if he can corner this fast, then I can corner this fast." If the rider in front is good at trail braking, and the rider behind assumes that they've entered the corner at a safe coasting speed, then there's going to be trouble when the 2nd rider grabs brakes during a freak-out. I imagine this happens a lot behind RX.