Roll up roll up...

**h20boy** · 6th July 2009, 21:32

Okay folks I'm doing a defensive driving course to reduce my restricted time and need to get some opinions.

1. Please answer the attached poll.
2. Then answer this: What are the qualities of a 'safe driver'?
3. Why are you a safe/unsafe driver?

Thanks team....be honest now.

**hospitalfood** · 6th July 2009, 21:42

i don,t crash as much as i used to, but if i was into safe i would be someone else, who was boring and spent to much time sipping tea with mum.

but pretend for your licence so you can get a bigger bike and make a bigger mess, just don't do it right in front of me

**h_tron** · 6th July 2009, 21:46

oh man i just been through the defensive thing, its the second one i have done (to reduce my car full and bike full). i hated it! i did the stupid aa one both times, the second time through i realised how its aimed at younger drivers and had nothing to do with biker, which the instructor even admitted to me! the thing that got me was cause i had already done one, i would have thought i would have made me a "better driver" but after doing the survey you can only get a crap result, even the instructor got a not "prefect" driver. arrgggh makes me mad just thinking bout it!

-in saying this if i had not gone on this course i never would have met paul from henderson yamaha and never got an r6

oh and dont listen to me, enjoy the course

**Hitcher** · 6th July 2009, 21:48

1. It's a poll, not a pole. Look it up if you don't believe me.
2. There is no such thing as a "safe" rider. At best you will find riders who are statistically less at risk than others but, like life expectency generally, that tells you little as to when you may meet with serious harm.

**ManDownUnder** · 6th July 2009, 21:54

Originally Posted by h20boy

1. Please answer the attached pole.

Hitcher pointed it out - I won't... I answered it.

Originally Posted by h20boy

2. Then answer this: What are the qualities of a 'safe driver'?

Someone riding within their limits and prepared for the consequences if they choose to push them

Originally Posted by h20boy

3. Why are you a safe/unsafe driver?

I ride with my limits and am prepared for the consequences if I choose to push them

**Maha** · 6th July 2009, 21:55

In a word........Maturity.
Answers both the questions.

PS: I never vote on polls.

**BMWST?** · 6th July 2009, 22:11

sometimmes i am safe and others i am not.....I beleive the biggest influence on rider safety is observation and antticipation,you gotta see the hazard first.....

**ukusa** · 6th July 2009, 22:18

does being a safe rider involve wearing a condom while riding?

**Qkchk:Me** · 6th July 2009, 22:32

Originally Posted by ManDownUnder

Someone riding within their limits and prepared for the consequences if they choose to push them

You bet me too it!

**Blackshear** · 7th July 2009, 00:00

I believe I am a safe rider, so I clicked yes. (ALthough everyones opinion is subject to everyone elses)
I do not push my limits, and iffin I ever do, it's in my own space away from every other two tonnes of consequence rolling at me.

I plan to wake up every morning with the option of walking out the house, and starting the wee beasty into life. I may speed occasionally, but it's all time and place.

**naphazoline** · 7th July 2009, 04:54

I have done a D.D.C. early this year,and they are quite good to do.

However,there's no such thing as a right,or wrong answer.
It's about completing the tasks given,so that when the instructor hands them in,they, (his superiors), can see that the participant has done what is required of them.

I did find it odd that you finish with a drive in a car,when shortening your bike license.WTF?

**YellowDog** · 7th July 2009, 06:13

The secret is in recognising where and when it is safer to have fun.

200kph on a wide and straight piece of race track is a lot safer than 70Kph lane splitting through traffic.

**h20boy** · 7th July 2009, 06:21

Originally Posted by naphazoline

I have done a D.D.C. early this year,and they are quite good to do.

However,there's no such thing as a right,or wrong answer.
It's about completing the tasks given,so that when the instructor hands them in,they, (his superiors), can see that the participant has done what is required of them.

I did find it odd that you finish with a drive in a car,when shortening your bike license.WTF?

Absolutely...its not about being right or wrong in your evaluation of your riding skills, or others riding skills. Its about identifying your own attitude towards driving.
We all piss and moan about cage drivers and other idiots we see doing stupid things but in reality, we can't change what other people do or how they behave. We can only look at our own approach and what we can do to help make ourselves better/safer drivers/riders.

**oldrider** · 7th July 2009, 07:50

I generally try to be but do suffer serious lapses now and then!

Her indoors wouldn't perch on the fanny bracket if "she" couldn't influence the lapse count though!

Hmmmmm, looks like a "no" vote!

Damn!