Localised riding advice.

[FROSTY]

Over the years Ive seen and heard some healthy debate about safe riding.
Something to keep in mind when giving or taking riding advice is the LOCATION of the riding being done.
City riding as oposed to country riding. Inner city 50km/h as oposed to Multi lane highway. Racetrack or gravel backroad.
All of these situations in my opinion require different riding skills.
Probablky not saying this right sorry folks

[MSTRS]

Specific advice is more difficult to clarify, but general advice applies everywhere.
Like...
Ride within your limits and always leave a margin for error.
Keep your attention focussed and always be aware of the peripheral stuff.
If you must assume anything, then assume that 'they' are trying to kill you.

That sort of thing?

[FROSTY]

Yep that stuff is general advice. But stuff like positioning on the road for example is different for every situation.
2 extremes of course being the racetrack and a multi lane highway.
Or braking -gravel road /country sealed road.

[MSTRS]

Yep that stuff is general advice. But stuff like positioning on the road for ... a multi lane highway.


Easy, innit? Stay in the right wheel track in the left lane, but in the left wheel track in the right lane. Makes you more visible to anyone behind (in the other lane) who's going faster...they 'should' see a motorcycle instead of a gap...
The middle of 3 lanes is more difficult to assess.

[dpex]

Over the years Ive seen and heard some healthy debate about safe riding.
Something to keep in mind when giving or taking riding advice is the LOCATION of the riding being done.
City riding as oposed to country riding. Inner city 50km/h as oposed to Multi lane highway. Racetrack or gravel backroad.
All of these situations in my opinion require different riding skills.
Probablky not saying this right sorry folks

Hell's teeth, Frosty, that is soooo deep. Thanks man!

And there I was thinking that it's all just the same-old, same-old, regardless of road or surface.

You've missed you calling, mate. You should be a full-time advisor to OSH and ACC.

Your propinquity with reality is....well, what can I say?

You could apply such perspicacity to liquids, for example.

Like, "Setting fire to water is really hard unless you can split the shit into its components. And drinking avgas while you're smoking could make the avgas taste terrible.'

Yup. That was deep stuff, Frosty, me old mate. Deep stuff.

You'd had three teaspoons full of light beer before you wrote this post, eh?

[riffer]

dpex - you're being a dick.

Bugger off and play in pointless drivel okay, there's a good boy.

Then the grown-ups can have a good old conversation about how to help the less mature.

[MsKABC]

dpex - you're being a dick.

Bugger off and play in pointless drivel okay, there's a good boy.

Then the grown-ups can have a good old conversation about how to help the less mature.

:yes: +1...

[FJRider]

Easy, innit? Stay in the right wheel track in the left lane, but in the left wheel track in the right lane. Makes you more visible to anyone behind (in the other lane) who's going faster...they 'should' see a motorcycle instead of a gap...
The middle of 3 lanes is more difficult to assess.

Your assumption, is based on the "fact" that all bikers have more than one lane in each direction, available to them, on the roads in their areas. (unless you can count the footpath as the "left" lane)

Perhaps you spend too much time on motorways...

[James Deuce]

People don't want advice, they want confirmation that their own theories, not matter how crackpot, are "correct".

Free advice has no value.

[MadDuck]

Your propinquity with reality is....well, what can I say?

You could apply such perspicacity to liquids, for example.


Swallow a dictionary for lunch did you?

[The Stranger]

help the less mature.

you do realise that dpex does qualify here don't you?

[Maha]

Swallow a dictionary for lunch did you?

Inquisitorially yes....:niceone:

[MadDuck]

Inquisitorially yes....:niceone:

Hitcher will be bloody impressed :msn-wink:

Damn wheres my dictionary

[FJRider]

Hitcher will be bloody impressed :msn-wink:



Hitcher's perspicacity has already been noted ... :niceone:

[FJRider]

you do realise that dpex does qualify here don't you?

But help is better given/appreciated to/by those that want to admit they need help ...

[Hitcher]

Hitcher will be bloody impressed :msn-wink:

Damn wheres my dictionary

Hitcher once bought a book called How to Hug which, on reading, proved to be a volume from Encyclopaedia Brittanica.

[MSTRS]

Your assumption, is based on the "fact" that all bikers have more than one lane in each direction, available to them, on the roads in their areas. (unless you can count the footpath as the "left" lane)

Perhaps you spend too much time on motorways...

And your assumption is that there are motorways in HB...
For the record, the only time I ride/drive a multi-lane road/motorway is if I am in Welly or Orks. I try to avoid them, tho, as any sensible person would, but if I have no choice then I will ride them as stated.

[FJRider]

There are motorways in Otago, the one into Dunedin from the south is two lanes in each direction ... the one north out of Dunedin has motorway status, but only has one lane in each direction...

Both have good biker friendly, alternitive routes...