To use this function effectively, you rear brake needs to be in top condition, so missing the routine service would not be a good idea.ĭo let me know what you thought about this article in the comments section below. This function is quite useful when you have to stop on the slopes especially when you have a pillion, some heavy luggage between your legs or you just feeling lazy to hold the brake lever. Be sure to reference our compression guidelines when encoding your video.

It can be downloaded for Windows or Mac here.

To release the brake, just pull the rear brake (and not the parking lever) enough to release the parking lever which then should fall back into its original position and you should be good to go ! HandBrake is a free program that can be used to compress and prepare MP4 videos for upload to Vimeo.

To verify if the parking brake is engaged and working, let go your hands and try to move your moped. The parking brake lever, acts as a stub or stopper to hold the rear brake lever in “pull” position locking the rear wheel. To engage the handbrake (parking) brake, pull left brake lever (with your left hand) and use your right hand to pull the parking brake lever up as shown in the above picture. The type of lever might vary for manufactures and for models, but the working remains more as less the same.

Well mopeds also have parking brakes available as a small lever near the left (rear) brake lever as you see below. How do you do this with mopeds such as Activa ? Most of us also use this feature on traffic signals as well. Some of the bike owners use the 1st gear and turn off the bike to attain the same result. Its majority purpose it to lock all the wheels of the car making it immovable which is pretty useful when parking on slopes.

Handbrake use