LTSA's Riding Techniques

[Smorg]

Check out what I found on the LTSA's website as infomation for bikers under riding techniques......its alot of info I hope you guys can take it all onboard. My personal favourite is the wealth of infomation for carrying a pillion.

Riding techniques

Braking

Your brakes are the most important part on your motorcycle. Always check them before you ride.
Your most effective brake is your front brake, but the most effective way to bring your motorcycle to a stop is to use the front and rear brakes together. Use both brakes every time you slow down or stop.
Overbraking one or both wheels is one of the most common causes of skidding.

Riding round a curve

Keep well to the left when riding around a curve, whether it's a laned or unlaned curve.
Never change gear in a curve because your wheel could lock up or spin, causing a skid.

Starting on a hill

It is more difficult to get the motorcycle moving uphill than it is on flat ground. There is always a danger of rolling backwards into someone behind you. Here is what you have to do:

Use the front brake to hold the motorcycle while you start the engine and change into first gear.
Change to the foot (rear) brake to hold the cycle while you operate the throttle with your right hand.
Open the throttle a little for more power.
Release the clutch leaver gradually.
Release the foot brake quickly when the engine begins to slow down (this means the engine is taking hold).
Now accelerate gently and take off as normal.

Carrying a passenger

You must not carry a pillion passenger until you hold a full Class 6 motorcycle licence.

[Pumba]

You never saw the riding in a group video done by ACC, I think, full of wisdome as enlightening as above.

[idleidolidyll]

oh my god!
motorcycling by beurocrats!

the world ended while i was asleep

[Toaster]

Talk about stating the obvious.

[Squeak the Rat]

Overbraking one or both wheels is one of the most common causes of skidding.
You've got to be kidding me!!!!????

[Smorg]

nope its all true all of it, just ask them

[Swoop]

Were there references to the most efficient mirrorectomy or cagepanel recess-input techniques???

[Laava]

Yeah but there was no 'Do not operate the vehicle whilst under the influence of mind altering substances or alcohol' Yay!:sunny:

[riffer]

to be expected from the people who consider deceleration as the answer to all road condition changes...

seen www.hoof-it.co.nz yet?

[Quartermile]

I thought the engine or something might be the most important part of the bike, shows how much I know good thing I read this

[RC1]

this one is quite good reading http://www.rideforever.co.nz/road_awareness/index.html

[Dave Lobster]

Keep well to the left when riding around a curve,


Even a left hand bend?? What a dumbass idea.



Never change gear in a curve because your wheel could lock up or spin, causing a skid.

A spin causes a skid? For real?



Overbraking one or both wheels is one of the most common causes of skidding


The only cause of skidding, surely?


WTF are people being taught here? This sort of advice is wrong.

[The Pastor]

WOAH SMOrG YOU HAVE NOW ENLIGHTEND ME! I NOW KNOW HOW TO RIDE!

[SwanTiger]

Fuck you lot are tossers, find something productive to do instead of being such a fucken negative bunch of twats!

[Smorg]

Fuck you lot are tossers, find something productive to do instead of being such a fucken negative bunch of twats!

only if you teach me how to ride

[Squeak the Rat]

Fuck you lot are tossers, find something productive to do instead of being such a fucken negative bunch of twats!

Something productive and positive like your post perhaps? :killingme

[unhingedlizard]

Trumpet used to have something like "attempting to pull away without grasping the bars could adversly affect handling" on thier tanks.

Firstly COULD?
Secondly how?

[Quartermile]

Something productive and positive like your post perhaps? :killingme

Yea :laugh: true

[SwanTiger]

only if you teach me how to ride
Sure :yes:


Something productive and positive like your post perhaps? :killingme
Yes, precisely.

[Quartermile]

Why are you supposed to use the rear brake for hill starts I always use the front...??

[Smorg]

Why are you supposed to use the rear brake for hill starts I always use the front...??

fuck knows whatever your happy with I guess

[Ixion]

The rear brake thing for hill starts may be a carry over from the days of 2LS drum front brakes. Good brakes, they were (well, compared with the derisory SLS lumps of hub ornament that preceded them) , going forward. But , backwards, they became twin TRAILING shoe brakes! Which did bugger all! I remember rolling backwards down the steep bit of Queen St, on Tessa with the front brake hard on, frantically scrabbling to get a foot on the foot brake.

[Quartermile]

Oh Haha good to see they update their systems regulary then:shifty:

[Mr. Peanut]

to be expected from the people who consider deceleration as the answer to all road condition changes...

seen www.hoof-it.co.nz yet?

Hahaha, patronise the public. BRILLIANT IDEA :yes:

Oh right, we can't beat physics, I totally agree. Does that mean that cause my bike stops and manouvers four times as fast as your average cage I can do 200kph?

What a bunch of anal retentive beaurocratic CUNTS!

[xwhatsit]

The rear brake thing for hill starts may be a carry over from the days of 2LS drum front brakes. Good brakes, they were (well, compared with the derisory SLS lumps of hub ornament that preceded them) , going forward. But , backwards, they became twin TRAILING shoe brakes! Which did bugger all! I remember rolling backwards down the steep bit of Queen St, on Tessa with the front brake hard on, frantically scrabbling to get a foot on the foot brake.

PoshTourer was telling me about that with his borrowed Bimmer; after that I was rather glad I had at least one disc on my bike.

I use rear brake for hill starts though; never gone backwards or stalled, either (apart from when I was still figuring out the clutch, of course). I don't have very good throttle control when I'm holding the front brake as well, that's why I do it.