Simple safety/riding tips - add your own

[Shadows]

If there is a side road ahead, do not overtake.

[KrazyGixxerBoy]

Always be on the look out for that rogue patch of oil/diesel etc on the road...

[mctshirt]

Don't eat the yellow snow.

Or the brown acid.

Ride just inside your powers so you've got a little bit of wriggle room when ambition exceeds ability

[Usarka]

Don't go out with a loaded gun.

Always bust one out in private before hand.

[Ms Piggy]

Ride as if you own your piece of road, i.e. with confidence.

Look where you wanna go, this is especially handy when going round corners but the same rule applies at all times.

Always look further ahead than just the couple of vehicles in front of you so you're aware what hazards might be coming up.

Always have an escape route worked out - practice this when you pootling along so it comes naturally when you're in a situation where you need to do it.

Riding in the wind: knock it down a gear and keep your speed up, DON'T slow down when you're hit with a wind gust.

RELAX and ENJOY!

[Genie]

Please keep this up...i'll need all your wonderful wise words for when i get out on the road. thanks.

[MarkH]

Don't go out with a loaded gun.

Always bust one out in private before hand.

Handy advice if your date arrives needing hair gel.

[dipshit]

in the hundreds of times ive done that road, i dont recall ever encountering another vehicle coming the other way. so this time i thought, i will do the bridge at 100, instead of the normal 70-75.

This brings up another one...

Never get complacent. Assumption is the mother of all fuckups.

Always cross your t's and dot your i's. Always.

[Swoop]

Always blow on the pie.



Also, tarsnakes. Fucking things are all over the place and can screw you up, big time.

[Tank]

Sometimes riding slower and 'taking it all in' esp where the scenery is stunning can be far more rewarding than getting around in the quickest time possible.

[Big Dave]

Always blow on the pie.



Also, tarsnakes. Fucking things are all over the place and can screw you up, big time.

When I take over - all the engineers who specified and approved the use of tar snakes will be required to compulsorily ride motorcycles.

[EgliHonda]

Use your nose for more than smelling the flowers and tracking down electrical faults, can give early warning of stock effluent, diesel etc...

Was on early ride the other morning and strong smell of diesel alerted me to where the dickless boy racer brigade had dumped diesel so their poofy little gaymobiles could do skids...

fuckwits...

[GOONR]

Sometimes riding slower and 'taking it all in' esp where the scenery is stunning can be far more rewarding than getting around in the quickest time possible.

Sounds like my normal every day riding

[duckonin]

Make sure you can always stop within the distance you can see to be clear.

Well that should slow a few up then, plus those in cars...

[MarkH]

Also, tarsnakes. Fucking things are all over the place and can screw you up, big time.

I have found that those slick bastards are VERY bad in the wet - makes my rear tyre twitch and my rectum contract, scary stuff!

Important tip:
In the wet look for rough tarmac through the corners, be VERY wary of smooth tarmac (tar snakes, slick patches where the stones have been pushed into the tar leaving smooth tar, etc.).