Has contributions from Rapid Training’s Giles Lamb, who used to appear regularly on these pages.
This month’s RiDE magazine
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Interesting article, thank Richard. in 2017, I had an "off" on a pushbike, when racing in a Sportive. It was due to gravel and sheep poo on the road. For the next year, my riding was crap! I was fixated (on motorbike and pushbike) by the state of the road surface 20 metres ahead. I became a bit "point and squirt" as a result. It took more time, and more confidence to follow Rule 1 above, but much better now, smoother more flowing.
Good article, thanks for posting. Some good reminders in there
Looking well ahead and planning actually helps in so many ways
Good article, thanks for posting. Some good reminders in there
Looking well ahead and planning actually helps in so many ways
Thanks Wapping, well done Giles 
Good to see Giles in the press and a decent article, especially right now as many riders are returning to the road.
Where have they all been ?
I thought that when I read the headline, but I think it was a subtle play on words as the following paragraph refers to learning from books.
A good article but sadly already too late for some this Spring. One of my lady students recently witnessed a fatality when out on a Sunday ride, she watched a rider overtake on a corner straight into a head on collision.
Take care out there all.
Take care out there all.
Nasty thing to witness if you’re a new rider. Hope she’s OK.
Great to see Giles passing on his experience to newer or less confident riders. He was great guy to meet unless you were interested in photography, then you would learn nothing from him
I enjoyed everything Giles wrote. Even copy/pasted some parts for future reference.
All good info.
Today my local paper elaborated on last week’s fatal crash up north.
An ex-policeman crashing with a car on one of our most popular roads.
Bikes usually come off worse than 4 wheelers.
All good info.
Today my local paper elaborated on last week’s fatal crash up north.
An ex-policeman crashing with a car on one of our most popular roads.
Bikes usually come off worse than 4 wheelers.
Nice share, thank you
I do bump into Giles occasionally, mid tutorial..seems my local road forms part of his Rapid Training route. He’s still bonkers
Bumping into Gile, occasionally ….. well, I guess it’s better than crashing into him, regularly 
He’s indeed a good egg but quite mad. I put it down to his schooling.
He’s indeed a good egg but quite mad. I put it down to his schooling.
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Thank you Richard, for reproducing that...I have been riding old clunkers (single pots) for the last 18 months, so have been bmbling along without a care in the world.
Now I have the hornet, I can once again build my confidence on a quicker, smoother bike and that article was just what I needed.
There is little margin for error here, some of the drops are a good workout for your sphincter if you do get it wrong!
It is not the drop that would kill you, more the trees on the way down, I am averse to puncturing. No phone signal and you have the perfect recipe for a slow painful death.
Now I have the hornet, I can once again build my confidence on a quicker, smoother bike and that article was just what I needed.
There is little margin for error here, some of the drops are a good workout for your sphincter if you do get it wrong!
It is not the drop that would kill you, more the trees on the way down, I am averse to puncturing.
No phone signal and you have the perfect recipe for a slow painful death.
In the deep gorges in France, bods sometimes drive / ride off the edge and nobody realises they are gone. They only find them when the carrion eating birds circle above.
Take care.
Take care.
Has contributions from Rapid Training’s Giles Lamb, who used to appear regularly on these pages.
A good and timely feature, even though I have only just seen it... but what the hell was the designer thinking, those red box outs with white copy are unreadable. I have even tried increasing the size of the picture on the screen, I cannot read a word and it is purely down to the stupid colour choice by the designer. There is nothing wrong with black copy on a white background.
I do take issue in their need to make people faster riders. What for? Fast enough is fast enough and saves licence points, to say nothing of tyre life and miles per gallon, neither of which feature in their training, or at least they don't mention it. I challenge them to get 31,678 miles out of a set of tyres.
Tyre life/mpg oh dear suck the fun out of it why don't you!
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