Sliding into corners

[Onphuuno]

Hi everyone, would like to know how everyone combats the bike locking up the rear wheel and the engine revs dropping.

For example:
After a long straight you have to do some heavy braking before a turn. You're downshifting and working front and back brakes hard. The engine seems to cut power and the bike slides sideways.

I had initially thought my down shifts were too fast and the rear wheel was getting jammed. But then I also thought maybe I was riding the rear brake too hard>

Thoughts?

[Evilhamster888]

Just don't use rear brake, it will make you slide. Front brake is enough to decelerate. Rear brake is nearly useless in ride4.

Generally i try to pass a corner this way : hard on front brake at 150m-100m of corner, still in the straight, downshift to get into required gear at the begining of the corner, still braking while releashing pressure start to turn, full releash of brake when mid corner, then smooth reacceleration exiting the corner...

Consider looking for video tutorial about trail braking. This will make you far faster.

Also don't downshift to much, and try to do it only on straight as much as possible. Depending of the corner and/or the bike downshift on 3rd or 2nd (at most) will be enough, avoid downshifting all down to 1st gear. 1st gear WILL make you slide far more than in 2nd or 3rd.

[Highthorn]

Yeah the rear brake is too powerful on this game, locking it every time.
I heard people assigning the rear brake to the right analog stick down, but I can't work it so I just don't use the rear brake.

Originally posted by Evilhamster888:

Also don't downshift to much, and try to do it only on straight as much as possible. Depending of the corner and/or the bike downshift on 3rd or 2nd (at most) will be enough, avoid downshifting all down to 1st gear. 1st gear WILL make you slide far more than in 2nd or 3rd.

When downshifting to 1st or mid corner downshifting I simultaneously press clutch and downshift with my thumb to prevent sliding.
I assigned the buttons as followed:
A : upshift
Y : downshift
X : clutch

[Onphuuno]

very helpful thanks guys

[Genghis Khandom]

Try lowering your engine braking setting. You'll have to brake a little bit earlier, but the bike will be less likely to unsettle/lock up the brakes during heavy downshifting (or downshifting in general) if you come into a turn a little too hot.

If you play on a controller use the left or right d-pad and cycle through til you see EB3 (it'll be set to 3 if you haven't changed it) and lower that til it feels comfortable to you. Also, if you have the assist on that links both front and rear brakes to your brake trigger, it seems like lowering engine braking is a must, as your bike will sometimes slow down way too much at times and cause the bike to slide out from under you.

[stanson]

Do not use The rear brake. IT does not make your stopping distance shorter. In real racing they use rear mainly as a traction Control when accelerating.

[KG_03]

As said above. Rear brake in real life, in racing is used in few situations:
-help to prevent wheelies
-at initial phase of braking to stabilise the bike
-at final ohase of trailbraking to tighten the line

When braking hard rear does not have enough weoght and grip so using rear brake blocks rear wheel very fast.

In game it is hard to operate brake power with button so I bind it to right thumbstick what allows me to modulate brake power and use it just like in real life.