yeah yeah yeah ... that's bleedin obvious
But when there's a copper up yer chuff looking like a giant banana 12 feet from yer mirrors it's easy to be intimidated and distracted from your normal standard.
That's my point
Why ride so close?
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Why ride so close?
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so they can see what you're doing with your hands and feet ,and see what you can see.
They will take a line to see what you are doing, so don't assume you are taking the wrong line because theirs is different to yours.
Question for Giles.
Do you think that i'll get away with pulling the occasional Minger, seeing as i'm on a completely new bike, and, 'i'm, er, getting used to the power delivery officer sir'....
I think that would be an excellent way to start the day.
That's actually a very fair point. There have been wild west stories of in-house Police courses with the instructor sticking his boot on yer pannier 'cos you're not going fast enough.
Whilst it does help to see exactly what someone is doing with their controls - how they brake, when they're taking a gear and at what point, listening to their motor, .... riding too close can be intimidating, down right dangerous (it's a complete stranger after all - who knows what the feck he's going to do ..
) and can some times smack of show boating - 'look at me; six feet off yer exhaust pipe riding one handed - come on fella ...'.So yes, a sensible balance of see all the detail, without showing off or being intimidating.
Once I've sussed out their braking I mostly keep well tucked in to the nearside. Nine times out of ten I'm in the gutter.
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So yes, a sensible balance of see all the detail, without showing off or being intimidating.
When I did mine we reversed roles after a while, i.e. me riding close to see what the instructor was doing, whilst making good progress. Probably one of the most intense things I've done on a public road - thoroughly enjoyed it though and got a lot out of it
Andres
Id say (and it's just a personal opinion) one of the most fundamental building blocks to riding well is a sense of speed. Acceleration sense, flow, knowing where to crack on and get on with it, and knowing where to back off and maybe take a gear.
If I followed a rider who sat in the middle of his lane everywhere, left his indicators running from time to time, never looked in his mirrors, but ..but..but...but..had a great sense of pace and speed and was always running into junctions, bends, sticky little hazards ... all at the right sense of speed - I'd be a happy man. Positioning and stuff can come later.
And to feel that in a rider, to sense that little lift in his throttle, to sense that 'Ooo, I don't think he's spotted the postie round the corner - we're still cracking on and he's not eased off the gas yet ..' the best way to pick up on that and really get a feel for what and how a rider thinks, is to ride fairly close, to see what he's seeing, and to 'feel' his sense of speed.
If I followed a rider who sat in the middle of his lane everywhere, left his indicators running from time to time, never looked in his mirrors, but ..but..but...but..had a great sense of pace and speed and was always running into junctions, bends, sticky little hazards ... all at the right sense of speed - I'd be a happy man. Positioning and stuff can come later.
And to feel that in a rider, to sense that little lift in his throttle, to sense that 'Ooo, I don't think he's spotted the postie round the corner - we're still cracking on and he's not eased off the gas yet ..' the best way to pick up on that and really get a feel for what and how a rider thinks, is to ride fairly close, to see what he's seeing, and to 'feel' his sense of speed.
Well, that was a bit of fun actually. We didn't do an actual Bikesafe jobby, as the two Bobbies were really just on a bit of a jolly, testing all the demo bikes.
Still, we had a good blast around some decent South Wales twisties though, and Matt and John were a couple of nice fellas and true bike enthusiasts.
As for the new GS. wow, me likely very much.
It felt very light and flickable compared to my GSA, and the LC engine is a real peach.
I tried the different riding modes, but I wasn't to keen on the Dynamic mode as it felt a bit snatchy (like a KTM 990).
Yes, very nice, but I'll wait for inevitable GSA variant to be released before I consider upgrading.
Still, we had a good blast around some decent South Wales twisties though, and Matt and John were a couple of nice fellas and true bike enthusiasts.
As for the new GS. wow, me likely very much.
It felt very light and flickable compared to my GSA, and the LC engine is a real peach.
I tried the different riding modes, but I wasn't to keen on the Dynamic mode as it felt a bit snatchy (like a KTM 990).
Yes, very nice, but I'll wait for inevitable GSA variant to be released before I consider upgrading.
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