Intuition a valid survival skill?

[Matt_TG]

I quite like this UK safety advert

[YOUTUBE]http://youtube.com/watch?v=mvsnGQchHn0[/YOUTUBE]

I rode to Hamilton last Friday, and stood up on the pegs to see over a rise in the road just before passing a line of cars. I don't normally but for some reason did ... and saw the roof of a car coming. I believe intuition and learning from mistakes plays a big part in our learning experiences.

Edit: Damn, repost of a sticky thread video. ..... awaiting the repost disco light brigade lol

[MotoGirl]

I quite like this UK safety advert

That's a bloody good advert - I haven't seen it before.

[cowboyz]

I think it is a combination of experience and common sense. The really funny thing is that the more one talks about road safety and road craft the more one finds common sense is not that common.

[MotoGirl]

I think it is a combination of experience and common sense. The really funny thing is that the more one talks about road safety and road craft the more one finds common sense is not that common.

I wouldn't want to ride if I had my intuition stripped away and was only left with common sense and experience (what's that say about me) I follow my gut too often to believe it doesn't help me in some way.

[cowboyz]

I wonder how often your gut tells you to slow down/ not make that pass and it turned out it would have been fine?

The thing about that that cant be explained is that is only takes notice when it made a difference.

I would think that you naturally are a caucious (sp?) rider which is fantastic. But more easierly explainable than that that can not be explained.

[idleidolidyll]

totally

i've noticed that the more i practice, the more 'intuitive' i get.........

[MotoGirl]

I would think that you naturally are a caucious (sp?) rider which is fantastic. But more easierly explainable than that that can not be explained.

Yes, I'm reasonably cautious. I get what you're saying though. I'd rather slow down unnecessarily and find nothing, than go flying around a corner and into an obstacle I could've avoided if I'd listened to my guts!

My intuition isn't like the boy who cried wolf, i.e. if it tells me to slow down there's a damn good reason for it. That's a totally different story to slowing down because I'm scared

[Kinje]

I think there is something you pick up when riding, and its helped me out once or twice- following in a line of traffick decided to back off a bit and put a bigger gap in front of me to the next car. As I did this the tyre blew out on the trailer in front the of car in front of me. Car hit the brakes and I comfortably slowed down in the larger gap I'd created for myself.

And when you're not in the right head space it's dangerous. I've drifted into the oncoming traffic round an EASY bend by not concentrating hard enough on the task at hand, possibly my worst moment in motorcycling.

[GaZBur]

I wouldn't want to ride if I had my intuition stripped away and was only left with common sense and experience (what's that say about me) I follow my gut too often to believe it doesn't help me in some way.

Intuition - in my humble opinion is your subconscious mind picking up on clues often too subtle or difficult for your conscious mind to process and then trying to tell your conscious mind, "hey look out for ...whatever " I don't think its anything spooky or spiritual - just how the mind helps preserve the body it lives in. I would like to know what people who actually study the brain/mind think it is. Probably explains how so called spooky/spiritual things like dowsing actually works too.
So you are right to follow your gut, because its probably based on well informed reasoning, you just don't know why.