Originally Posted by
kickstart
"Performance" benefit? No. Safety benefit? Yes.
When ones attention is divided between braking, signaling, and watching traffic in all directions, while making a turn, the rear brake allows a far greater margin of error.
Locking up the rear will likely result in a minor skid. locking up the front is likely to end in disaster......For those of us who don't have cat like reflexes, or world class skills.
No difference in performance OR safety.
You brain learns either one (left OR right). By the time someone has gotten to the point in their riding that they are even thinking about this whole subject, they have already learned one way or the other. These are not "cat-like reflexes". It's just whatever you learn.
Just because one hand is dominant, does not mean it is innately more coordinated.
What IS a real safety issue is riding any bike other than your own when you are used to to a braking setup different than nearly every other bike out there.