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Originally Posted by adouglas
Reason: When you brake progressively, the tire squishes and flattens out, increasing the size of your contact patch before you push it to the limit. In other words, the traction limit increases while you're still on the safe side of it.
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Even more important is that the force the braking tire can apply in the direction to slow down the motorcycle is proportional to the force pushing it down against the pavement. The size of the contact patch helps, but going from about 1/2 of the motorcycle weight on the tire when not braking to nearly all of it during hard braking helps much more.