Oh well, the troll that is cassina has been keeping you fellas amused. In the meantime I ventured out in the sun, much more satisfying than discussing riding techniques with a pot plant
I tried some of that riding in the video today. Wasn't all bad.
Absolutely right Pete, no point teaching someone extreme positioning without talking about SSV.
No doubt about it Geoff, this might be where the perception comes from that Roadcraft is in some way rigid or inflexible. In practical terms it's the exact opposite, but in order for someone to graps that they need first hand exposure to the Roadcraft system.
Yesterday my new trainee and myself witnessed a Police car attempting a U-turn not far over a blind rise, well when I say attempt, it turned into a 3 point turn. My trainee got a bit aggro on this, saying how the cops should know better than to keep doing this. Yep, I'll agree it was less than ideal, but then if I'm not out driving/riding my stopping distance...not really a problem either. Which then led to a chat about vanishing point and stopping distance. So even a less than ideal situation can be turned into a learning experience
Opinions are like arseholes: Everybody has got one, but that doesn't mean you got to air it in public all the time....
Yes and no. My trainee is new to advanced driving, so while what the officer did was less than ideal, to me it was a non-event. Where my trainee went wrong was in thinking he's perfectly entitled to charge over a blind rise, which will see him outrun his stopping distance significantly. In such a situation the officer doing a U-turn would turn into a near miss or incident. So as I said earlier, even a less than ideal situation turns into a learning event.
Great that trainee saw firsthand that one has to be ready for dangerous actions from fuckwits on our roads.
Inexcusable is that this particular fuckwit is from the "safer communities together" brotherhood.
Happily to endanger and even kill any roaduser who happens to be in the way of an (Non quota...) infringement opportunity...
Opinions are like arseholes: Everybody has got one, but that doesn't mean you got to air it in public all the time....
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