MOOD - its affect on riding

[Skyryder]

Get some pratt who pisses you off then riding can become a little dangerous. Your anger affects judgment. The scary thing 'is' that it can take a few minutes before you realize you are making bad calls. That's when luck can keep you alive and when it runs out you can be dead.

Stay in tune with your head and don't let the dial start to roam onto another station.

Skyryder

[eliot-ness]

Mood doesn't affect my riding at all. On the contrary, regardless of how I feel beforehand, the moment I turn the key it's forgotten and the bike takes over until I arrive back home. The oddest thing is that I can never remember why I I was in a mood in the first place. Cars on the other hand put me in a bad mood within the first five minutes, which is why I leave all the driving to the wife. (or, which is why the wife doesn't let me drive.)
What does affect my riding to some extent is the fact that over the last few months I've suffered a nagging ache in my knees after about an hour's riding. Old age I guess, but it's enough to affect my concentration if I don't take a break for ten minutes.

[mdb]

Bad mood - agressive and unforgiving
Good mood - aggressive and unforgiving

Hmmm ... maybe I have the wrong attitude!

[paturoa]

I'm dangerous to myself when I'm grumpy, I find myself thinking about stuff and going onto auto-pilot.