City riding/country riding-different survival needs??

[FROSTY:Me]

Hey folks. Cruisin back home yesterday arvo It occurred to me that the order of priority for survival skills for a big city based rider is in a different order to a country rider and so perhaps the order they are learnt should be in a different order.
An example has to be bike position on the road.For a novice in the city its about beeing seen whereas in the country its about seeing.
Probably sayin it wrong but something to think about.

[Motu]

No,it's all about seeing dangers - don't rely on others to look out for you.

[CookMySock]

In the (busy) city you can't outride your corners so all your obstacles are seen. It's a matter of projecting all their movements a few seconds ahead and projecting/predicting any anomoly and reacting early to it or beginning a manoever in the opposite direction - then everything just flows. Errors are a product of many multiplicands.

In the country you are always outriding your corners, so it amounts to "you better be real ready son". Real ready or real dead. Errors are the result of two multiplicands.

Either of these situations takes thousands of hours to develop. Broadly termed "experience."


Steve