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I think practicing motorcycle handling techniques should not be limited to an empty parking lot. Although practice should being, in a parking lot, it should be continued on the street in more realistic situations.
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Well said and thought out. People like to talk big about braking and turning; but the most important ‘skill’ is ROAD AWARENESS. Always alive and alert.
One Must Remain Eternally Vigilant to Stay Mentally Alert. Keep the good stuff comin.
I do practice for fun, I’ll look in my mirrors and sides and when nobody’s around I’ll practice. This saved my ass a couple nights ago when a truck pulled in front of me while speeding and because I had trained on the street I did it correctly and came within a meter of hitting that truck.
nice vid
I recommend emergency braking on the road only when there isn’t traffic behind or around you. If i hadn’t explicitly said that, it was because I figured it was common sense.
You are so correct. All the research shows that you will perform how you have practiced. Where you are dead wrong is suggesting that riders practice emergency breaking in traffic. Again, you will react how you have practiced, so what’s the argument for emergency breaking in traffic? If you train right you’ll do the right thing when the time comes. Also It looks unsafe to others, and riders have a bad enough rep already.
Glad it helped! Ride safe.
Yes You are right.
defenetly will do more of responsible training in the”real world”.
I often train on the parking zone-> U-turns,harsh braking.now after watching your video I realized that U-turns didn’t come as easy as they came on the parking slot.kerbs,fealling there can be a car coming bihind the bend while im doing U turn.this type of things make diffrent sense of emotion when on the parking zone.
thanks a lot
no i dont think this is crazy, i mean sure theres a risk of it going wrong but there is always a risk whenever you ride, i do exactly the same in my car.. say its heavy rain, i know how much braking i have normally in the rain but i go one step further and try an emergency stop under trees in heavy rain because the whole car reacts differently (you slide alot further) and recently in the uk we have had alot of snow and most of the time iv been out trying different things on ice its good practice
i dont think so. people without pratice are far dangerous as people with.
usualy the accidents are caused from people WITHOUT.
so ..
yeah you’re crazy cuz you might screw up and “practice” at the wrong time and actually cause an accident in the process
2:12 xDDD he trains lawn forcement
my mower does this, too
(no, i`m not too dumb to recognize, that it meant “law entforcement”… just got it wrong^^)
I am involved in many different sports and a reocouring theme is “practice as you play” meaning if you were a certain peice of equipment in a game you should were it in practice so that it is exactly the same when you need to use the skill in an actual situation
i do that “playing in trafic” also about twice per month. i do the emergancy braking, emergancy stearing and braking while im in a corner at high speed. its a must do for safe riding
hahah no your not ! VROOM VROOM … good stuff , stay safe
Great advice, keep up the good work. (That was a great analogy)
thanks for the feed bk gd stuf!
Good piece of advice.
Thanks!
I’m not sure exactly what you mean, but you can tighten your turn to avoid the car, or if acceleration will get you out of the way then you want to shift your weight to the inside of the turn and “push the bike away” from you so that it is standing up more. Standing it up more will allow you more grip, and allow you to add more acceleration. You have to balance the amount of corner traction and acceleration/braking traction that you are applying to your tires.
wat do u do wn you going round a corner lening right over and some 1 pops there nose of there car out cuz braking hard u slid off and if u acselerated away to the whit line u can high side it so wat do u do?
Way to take my thoughts an take them out of context. There are degrees of traffic and at higher levels they shouldn’t be used for practice. My point is that there is a certain kind of “muscle memory” (like SpacedTime mentioned) that is developed when doing this.
Awesome. I finally looked at your profile and realized.
Well, I’m from here in the ‘Zona as well. I travel high-way 60 a lot so I’ve been inspired to get into bikes early in life.
Also, thank you for the info you gave for my other comments.
I wanna see you in the curves and I wanna see you riding in Times Square during rush hour. Then we will see if you are fit to be teaching a “youtube” motorcycle safety class
Good advice. What you are talking about is something similar to ‘Muscle memory’ like in hand to hand combat etc.
Yea
Are you in Arizona???