These tips are based on my experiences while riding, so are not from some professional racer.
While riding you suddenly spot a speed breaker or a pot-hole and can't avoid and have to ride over it.
Do avoid pressing the front brake too much to slow down, use the rear brake more. Of course this is not compulsory but preferred.
The reason for advocating less front brake use *only* in this case is that when you press the front discs, the front fork(shock-absorbers) compress or *dive* and so when in this state, if you go over a speed-breaker or a pot-hole or speed breaker you will hear a *thud*
This sound is because the front shock absorber has been depressed to its limit.
I don’t think it harms the bike radically, though I will try and find it out.
The above experience is based on having disc brakes at front, I don’t know if drum brakes make the front shocks behave in such manner, even this I will check it out.
Of course having tech like Anti-Dive would change the scenario.
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