Motorcycling and An Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD)

You have a magic wand.

Tomorrow morning there is no ACC

The Work Account has been privatised.

The remaining accident cover ‘no fault scheme’ eg motorcyclist injuries, football/rugby injuries, cyclist injuries etc etc is held in abeyance for 5 years while a joint parliamentary committee is convened and a strategy put forward to replace ACC within three years and reviewed after a further two years.

At present ACC in its very basic format ...

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ACC Levy For Motorcycles – Suggestions

By providing Motorcycle Use Category Classification and also Recognition Of Additional Skills Training And Development Qualifications motorcyclists can decide when they want to ride, and at their choice and discretion graduate their riding skill. When to ride and at what skill level should be recognized and rewarded by a realistic and balanced scale of ACC levy/s.

While it may be expected ...

Epilogue

I hope you have enjoyed reading this review of my Newbie Training Update, in as much as the entries covered the recent formative years of learning to ride my motorcycle, I hope that in part, for those who particularly know me, that the Review gave an insight to the person BuckBuck#1. And for those who have read this blogg that have not met me out there on the roads of the lower North Island of New Zealand, I hope you have found a little something to take away when next you

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Over the following eighteen months there were numerous rewarding activities both out riding and here at the Kiwibiker website where I maintained several riding activity logs:

Where Did You Ride and What Did You Practice 2007
This was a regular fortnightly event: I created an inter-active participative forum whereby members would ‘write up’ their weekend riding and what they practised. From the pool of entries two were selected and copied across to the Newbie Training Update ...

In addressing my OCPD today (2009), I can look back over the period May 2006 to March 2007, and my approach to motorcycle riding.

Though some may see a 'methodical approach', for others reading between the lines of what has been written, they may see degrees of 'perfection-anxiety-caution-catastrophe-avoidance', and in my opinion that would be a reasonable evaluation.

I have now spent over three years riding and approaching 65,000km, and one observation that was made: ...

In addressing my OCPD, I think my whole approach to preparing for my Full Licence, is not only covered in part by doing the courses below, but also the extent to which I interacted with members of the Kiwibiker community.

Advanced Refresher Course And Defensive Driving Course

Advance Refresher
Having clocked up 11,000km and taken the approach to my new found riding pleasure, I will undertake the Advanced Refresher course on 3 February 2007 with Andrew Templeton

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Dedicated to the memory of my Mentor.

Buck's Update - 29 November 2006

Total Distance 9043km [since 12 May 2006]

DEE-FAP
Over the past week the following DEE-FAP is discussed

Discipline- You will know when you get that pit gut feeling when something goes awry - Expect the Unexpected.

Riding on winding roads with sweeping and blind bends: There were numerous occasions when I met oncoming traffic, cars, SUV's

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My Mentor’s last comments to me over coffee at Staglands on a review ride just before I sat my Restricted Licence:

'Take your time in pushing the envelope a bit further.'

In many ways the DEE-FAP concept is summed up in his comment.

15 November 2006

Total Distance 8331km [since 12 May]

Training Strategy:
DEE-FAP Discipline - Focus - Attention - Personal

Just because I have passed my Restricted Licence today,

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