I'd suggest the problem started shortly before the car speeded up
My thoughts too...
I'd suggest the problem started shortly before the car speeded up
With forward thinking, you don't have to put any feet down..... just keep rolling ever so gently!
I'd suggest the problem started shortly before the car speeded up
lol, don't care how, much forward thinking there is, eventually you have to stop at some point.
Are you not taught to chin the cnut at the next set of lights?
Thank you for the comments .. it’s just a new way of riding for me, and one which that takes time to adapt to... as I’m being told by my instructor that under no circumstances must you exceed the speed limit, dropping back would be my only option.
I’m also now busy practicing right foot down, bike in neutral when stationary for period of time. Feels a bit like learning to dance lol.
Drop to the appropriate gear and gun it, you will be past the car long before he reaches 60 mph. Use the advantage you have with the bike. Always making sure its safe to do it. Remember IPSGA
For the final polish, have a look at Micky of this parish 's thoughts on advanced riding.
http://www.adventure.gs/Adventure.GS/Riding_Hints.html
Written years ago when he was still in full possession of his faculties! Seriously though, you'll not go far wrong putting his thoughts into practice! Good luck with the test.
Spot on. It harps back to the days of drum brakes on bikes and is now utterly obsolete.It doesn't matter which foot you put down, provided the bike is stable. If your instructor is telling you different, he needs a refresh himself, this is another old chestnut.
For the final polish, have a look at Micky of this parish 's thoughts on advanced riding.
http://www.adventure.gs/Adventure.GS/Riding_Hints.html
Written years ago when he was still in full possession of his faculties! Seriously though, you'll not go far wrong putting his thoughts into practice! Good luck with the test.
One of the best riders I have ridden with over 1000's of miles
One of the best riders I have ridden with over 1000's of miles
Just follow the trail of piss before it evaporates
He can't piss when it's cold
Spot on. It harps back to the days of drum brakes on bikes and is now utterly obsolete.
It matters up until you've passed.Can I dare to comment in on which foot down ....
There are things that matter, and things that don't matter. But .... (sigh ... suck teeth ... grimace in anticipation of the replies .... ) .... things that 'don't matter' often do matter!
My youngest (21) holds her knife and fork in the 'wrong' hands! She's done it for years Ive tried telling her but I don't want to be an unbearable nag, so I've left it and that's now how she uses them. Does it matter? Well .... No it doesn't really. But ... arrgghhhh .... it sort of does!
Are there more important things to get yer teeth stuck into in good riding than which blinking foot you put down? Of course! If as a riding coach, thats all you can pick up on, then you're either a shite coach or the bloke you're coaching is a true riding God!
So ... it sort of doesn't matter.
My 'But', in the whole question of 'does it matter', is that style and finesse are (to me), really important qualities. We're all familiar with the four S's of safety system smoothness speed. For me there should be a fifth S there of style! (and it might even trump Speed?).
So as an example, I have just come back from a week NATO escorting. 2/3's of the countries escort bikers were there, and whilst escorting should be a national standard, boy do you see differences in standards between different forces. And aside from the actual execution of an escort, what you also see .... and it shouts at you .... is differences in attention to style and overall finesse.
Part and parcel of escorting is the finish at the pick up and drop off points, riding as a team together as you recce routes, filtering and moving in the traffic together as a team. Starting engines together, getting on and off together .... your overall appearance. And some forces were good at it, and others just atrocious ('walking' the bike in traffic, dragging feet, both feet on the floor, shit filtering, no formation, gaps in their group riding ... etc etc ).
Does it matter? Am I being an anal fucktard? Well .... Yeah!! It matters! The world is looking on - You need to look fucking good! And that includes the most trivial of things like 'how' you put your foot on the floor!
Car driving! Is there more to driving a manual car well than how you hold and move the gear stick Of course! There are books and books on advanced car driving, and how you hold the gear stick is probably covered in about three lines. Does it matter??!! (Take a guess ..!)
The best advanced car drivers (and I say 'the best' because there are drivers and there are drivers ..) have got all the pages of all the chapters in all the books ticked off. They are blinding at what they do. Do these guys .... the best guys .... do they just grab the gear lever? No. Even how you hold the lever, and say the differences in how you would hold it between 5th to 3rd, and 3rd to 2nd matter.
So my laboured point, is that if you want to be good ... really good .... the little things do matter.
Does it matter which foot you put down? I have a preference (right - I can now play with neutral), but as a coach myself, I would never give anybody a hard time for choosing to put their left foot down. But if one junction it was left, the next right, the next left ... they'd get a hard time! And how they put it down ? That matters! Little hops, skips, paddles, two feet down, 'walking' the bike ... they all look shit! Set your standards so that your heel touches down first, and then it rolls another inch and a half onto a flat foot and then doesn't move!
There are things that don't matter. But actually ..... they do.
It matters up until you've passed.
Can I dare to comment on which foot down ....
There are things that matter, and things that don't matter. But .... (sigh ... suck teeth ... grimace in anticipation of the replies .... ) .... things that 'don't matter' often do matter!
My youngest (21) holds her knife and fork in the 'wrong' hands! She's done it for years Ive tried telling her but I don't want to be an unbearable nag, so I've left it and that's now how she uses them. Does it matter? Well .... No it doesn't really. But ... arrgghhhh .... it sort of does!
Are there more important things to get yer teeth stuck into in good riding than which blinking foot you put down? Of course! If as a riding coach, thats all you can pick up on, then you're either a shite coach or the bloke you're coaching is a true riding God!
So ... it sort of doesn't matter.
My 'But', in the whole question of 'does it matter', is that style and finesse are (to me), really important qualities. We're all familiar with the four S's of safety system smoothness speed. For me there should be a fifth S there of style! (and it might even trump Speed?).
So as an example, I have just come back from a week NATO escorting. 2/3's of the countries escort bikers were there, and whilst escorting should be a national standard, boy do you see differences in standards between different forces. And aside from the actual execution of an escort, what you also see .... and it shouts at you .... is differences in attention to style and overall finesse.
Part and parcel of escorting is the finish at the pick up and drop off points, riding as a team together as you recce routes, filtering and moving in the traffic together as a team. Starting engines together, getting on and off together .... your overall appearance. And some forces were good at it, and others just atrocious ('walking' the bike in traffic, dragging feet, both feet on the floor, shit filtering, no formation, gaps in their group riding ... etc etc ).
Does it matter? Am I being an anal fucktard? Well .... Yeah!! It matters! The world is looking on - You need to look fucking good! And that includes the most trivial of things like 'how' you put your foot on the floor!
Car driving! Is there more to driving a manual car well than how you hold and move the gear stick Of course! There are books and books on advanced car driving, and how you hold the gear stick is probably covered in about three lines. Does it matter??!! (Take a guess ..!)
The best advanced car drivers (and I say 'the best' because there are drivers and there are drivers ..) have got all the pages of all the chapters in all the books ticked off. They are blinding at what they do. Do these guys .... the best guys .... do they just grab the gear lever? No. Even how you hold the lever, and say the differences in how you would hold it between 5th to 3rd, and 3rd to 2nd matter.
So my laboured point, is that if you want to be good ... really good .... the little things do matter.
Does it matter which foot you put down? I have a preference (right - I can now play with neutral), but as a coach myself, I would never give anybody a hard time for choosing to put their left foot down. But if one junction it was left, the next right, the next left ... they'd get a hard time! And how they put it down ? That matters! Little hops, skips, paddles, two feet down, 'walking' the bike ... they all look shit! Set your standards so that your heel touches down first, and then it rolls another inch and a half onto a flat foot and then doesn't move!
There are things that don't matter. But actually ..... they do.