Originally Posted by shogun17
Use your quads & other leg muscles to stabilise your knee. If you are locking it up, you are gonna be in a world of pain pretty soon.
get a brake
I just wasn't sure how to word it, I am definitely not locking the knee, but just putting more weight on it. It'll definitely be awhile before I feel comfortable riding without a brake (not planning on it ever at this point) and with where I'm at in the learning curve currently I'm considering adding a rear brake as well.