[lstodd]

Might be frowned upon, but it saved my life a few times.

If you drop throttle on a belt or variator transmission.. well the belt slips.

On a typical say japanese 600-ish cc with chain final drive, dropping throttle would not do 1/5 of what pulling the front brake will do.

If you have an emergency braking situation the rear brake is not only useless, it's a hazard, the rear wheel just lifts and loses traction and if you lock the rear wheel, not only you lose gyro stab effect, when you release front brakes what happens is that you highside. (crash that is).

Rear brake is for parking or slow coasting.

They all are really out there to kill you, so you must be ready at all times.