Scary situation, request for advice and warning to newbies

[jimbo_on_travels]

^ +1 to post above - I don't like "Meet your Maker" situations one bit!

[ZX12R Hoon]

Don't worry about lean angle. Just look where you want to go. Most people in that situation when they are inexperienced look at the fence or letterbox or tree on the other side of the road and in their heads they are thinking, "bugger, I'm going to hit that, don't want to but thats where I'm going", they look where they don't want to go and go there. It's called Target Focus. Cage drivers do it too, there will be a road sign or power pole and the hit it dead centre, why? Target Focus. All around it are escape routes but no, they hit iit. You have to train yourself to look as far round the corner as you can, search for the vanishing point, that's the very last bit of road that you can see, focus where you want to go and you'll go there. One point worth mentioning, when you are "in" a corner and on the lean, to see the vanishing point your head now has to tip backwards and you actually look up, the same as looking up at the sky when you are standing.