Your Bike Your Rules

**Shaun Harris** · 13th October 2015, 08:04

Are you 2 sure you are not suffering from head injuries. You both can sound so much like I was there for a long time, take a dam chill pill boys

**Metastable** · 13th October 2015, 15:47

The vast majority of the posts are opinions. It is impossible to agree with all of them. Most of the folks here are "big boys" or "big girls" and are going to ride how they see fit. Something written on the internet shouldn't handcuff them into riding in a different manner.

At the end of the day, if there were no opinions, KB wouldn't exist. You are going to get the person that thinks knee down on a twisty road with good visibility and conditions to be an @$$, similarly you are going to get the guy who thinks that riding through corners so slowly that you are doing 50 below the speed is moronic.

There is some very good information on this site. Some of it is plain fact... i.e. if you hang off more for a given corner and a given speed the bike will lean less. That's physics not an opinion. There are different ideas on how to ride and why to ride that way. I think that is good. It is good to hear different perspectives. Heck different types of bikes you ride differently, so there is even more variation. You don't ride a trail bike in the woods, the same way you ride a sportbike at the track.

Plus, I have seen professional opinions from riding instructors on leading UK publications aka BIKE for one, that contradict everything I have learned at top level track riding schools. In both cases, those are opinions..... good to listen to them, then sort things out for yourself (personally I think some of the stuff written on BIKE is wrong.... that's my opinion).

Your bike - ride it your way.... YES!..... however this day in age with all the social media etc out there, keep in mind there will be more opinions about your riding style then ever before.... however the nice thing about the digital age is that if you want to read up on different opinions on riding techniques etc.... that information is also available.

Positives and Negatives.

**bogan** · 13th October 2015, 19:43

Originally Posted by Maha

But, the noting of and saying something on a forum such as this one, has the same effect as clicking Yes or No on an online poll, it satisfy's you only, and you feel you have done your part.

So, how does your noting and saying something about the notion of users noted notes and said sayings fit into this?

**Gremlin** · 13th October 2015, 20:21

You don't know what you don't know. Sounds simple but there is a lot of truth in it. Equally, just because you've been riding for years doesn't mean you know everything (hell, you could have been doing the same thing wrong every year).

Like all advice, you need to qualify it. Some is plain wrong, some has elements of truth, some is very good. Part of experience is also being able to distinguish between those levels of advice. As Metastable has commented on, there will be conflicting advice and you'll need to resolve the differences (and equally I think he and I have had some debates). Track based advice will very likely differ to road based advice as there are different aims, yet will compliment each other in some ways.

The biggest thing however, is being in a receptive frame to learning and improving your riding skills. Very few know it all and everyone is human.

Motorcycling is dangerous, so why not stack the cards in your favour?

**husaberg** · 13th October 2015, 20:34

Originally Posted by bogan

This thread needs a poll.

The second question (first answerable one) doesn't make sense because it refers to judgement values from two differing viewpoints.

The last question is predicated on the assumption that 'your bike' is safe under 'your rules', again, possibly not a judgement value shared by both viewpoints referred to.

It should also be about a subject that fires up a like minded lunatic fringe frequent in disproportional numbers thereby further swaying the results in the desired favour.