if you lock just your rear up, you're going to slide in a straight line unless you're in a turn.
if you lock up just the front while going straight, who knows what will happen. probably something acrobatic.
in a turn, good luck with either? lol.
I don't know about your roads but ours are cambered, you lock the rear and the back of the bike goes towards the shoulder, in the wet you are down before you know it, locking the front would be something a novice would do, it is quite hard to do unless you panic in which case you aren't in control at all. There is nothing wrong with braking in turns mate, as long as you know what you are doing you can brake deep into turns, mainly front brake though. I have ridden hard all my life and never lost a bike due to poor brake control, quite the opposite, it was my advantage over my friends, no of them could out brake me into a corner. Most of what you said in your post is relevant at slower speeds where it is less likely that you will lock the brake although, i watched a guy on a Harley lock the rear at 30 MPH and slide straight into the back of a boat being towed, the bottom of the outboard motor split his chest in half and he died in front of me, if he had used his front brake he wouldn't have hit anything. In our advanced rider training programs they teach hard front braking for emergency stops, 40, 50, 60 MPH panic stops and it is almost all front brake. Watch any motorcycle racing and you will see everything i have stated, they brake extremely hard with the front at huge speeds, a lot of the time with no rear brake at all {the back wheel is in the air}, and deep into corners. Everyone should learn the limitations of their brakes as early on in their riding career as possible, it has saved me on many occasions, {i have never had an accident that was my fault}, i had one situation where i was riding with a mate, i was on a 750/4 with twin discs and Peter was on a 500/4 with stock brakes, a car came straight through a stop sign in front of us {at a school
}, i stopped about 5 meters from the car, peter hit it smack in the middle of the rear guard, it was purely my ability under brakes that helped me stop in time, Pete locked his rear and just kept going.. In 90% + of situations on the road it will be your front brake that will save your life, the rear can easily make things ugly real quick.
i'm sure there's an ideal ratio in braking,
That ratio changes the faster or slower you go and depending on circumstances, put it this way, if you were trying to stop using your method at the same speed as me using mine, you would be amazed at how far down the road you would stop ahead of me, i'm not bragging here, just trying to get across the importance of good braking technique and being confident with your brakes.... I spent a lot of time around motorcycle racing when i was younger and learned most everything from those guys, riding dirt bikes aggressively helped as well....
