Al
11th October 2006, 16:02
The Immutable Laws of Motorcycling
Motorcycling is not dangerous. Crashing is what is dangerous.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You won’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
You start with a bag of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of luck.
Good judgment comes from experience. Unfortunately the experience usually comes from bad judgment.
Keep scanning and doing head checks. There is always something you have missed.
In the ongoing battle between motorcycles traveling at high speeds and the ground traveling at zero, the ground has yet to lose.
In the ongoing battle between vehicles weighing over a tonne and motorcycles weighing less than a tonne, the rule of weight applies.
The only time you have too much fuel is when you are on fire.
If you wear an open face helmet, avoid crashing face down.
Tests have shown that good leathers slide on bitumen for 80 metres before wearing through. Denim slides 8 metres and everything else is worse than that. Only wear denim for short slides.
It is always a good idea to keep the end with the large light going forwards as much as possible.
Stay out of fog (clouds). The silver lining is probably a Mercedes.
Motorcycling is not dangerous. Crashing is what is dangerous.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You won’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
You start with a bag of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of luck.
Good judgment comes from experience. Unfortunately the experience usually comes from bad judgment.
Keep scanning and doing head checks. There is always something you have missed.
In the ongoing battle between motorcycles traveling at high speeds and the ground traveling at zero, the ground has yet to lose.
In the ongoing battle between vehicles weighing over a tonne and motorcycles weighing less than a tonne, the rule of weight applies.
The only time you have too much fuel is when you are on fire.
If you wear an open face helmet, avoid crashing face down.
Tests have shown that good leathers slide on bitumen for 80 metres before wearing through. Denim slides 8 metres and everything else is worse than that. Only wear denim for short slides.
It is always a good idea to keep the end with the large light going forwards as much as possible.
Stay out of fog (clouds). The silver lining is probably a Mercedes.