Practice

[dpex]

Do you take time to practice specific skills such as emergency stopping, slow cornering, fast cornering, slow-speed maneuvering, avoiding tar snakes and wet white paint on the road, looking for escape routes? Do you consciously lift your your head and look to the disappearing point in a corner.

I don't mean just being on your bike and doing what you do normally. I mean, do you take time out to consciously practice your skills?

[Mom]

Do you take time to practice specific skills such as emergency stopping, slow cornering, fast cornering, slow-speed maneuvering, avoiding tar snakes and wet white paint on the road, looking for escape routes? Do you consciously lift your your head and look to the disappearing point in a corner.

I don't mean just being on your bike and doing what you do normally. I mean, do you take time out to consciously practice your skills?

You are asking seperate things here.

avoiding tar snakes and wet white paint on the road, looking for escape routes? Do you consciously lift your your head and look to the disappearing point in a corner.

Is something that everyone should do and it forms part of my ride all the time.

slow cornering, fast cornering

Sometimes I play with corners.

emergency stopping

Probably could do a bit of practise here to be fair, has been a while since I had to STOP!

[nallac]

ummm, wheres the i should but don't choice?.
cause i should but don't.

[MadDuck]

emergency stopping

yep everytime I go down my driveway

slow cornering, fast cornering, slow-speed maneuvering

yep everytime I go up my driveway

avoiding tar snakes and wet white paint on the road, looking for escape routes? Do you consciously lift your your head and look to the disappearing point in a corner.

nope just becomes a natural part of riding

[AllanB]

Tar Snakes? There are not any snakes in NZ - unless you count "bed snakes" of course

[YellowDog]

Super slow speed riding with clutch 7 rear brake.

Very useful in traffic.

[mstriumph]

i know i should practice emergency stops

i don't

i reckon that, if i'm going to throw the bike down the road it'd better be a REAL emergency, not a practice scenario

[piston broke]

nope.20 odd yearsago, i spent the next 2-3 years riding on the 2k green belt one side of the house and 5-6k of shingle out the other,lol on an old cb125.
by the time my licence came around,my bike skills wern't too bad,so i just had to get used to trafic.
RIDE DEFENCEIVLY
just think ahead

[piston broke]

oop's,practice,nope.
but yes,always ready for anything every cruise is practice(tho it's natural,don't need to think about it,so i love bein out on 2 wheels).watchout a rabbit can cause strife lol,practice for that.
time on 2 wheels is what it's about,just enjoy

[MadDuck]

DEFENCEIVLY

.....

[piston broke]

oh well its close if you sound it out,sorta anyway

[Hitcher]

I haven't done any emergency stopping "practice" in the past few months of two-up touring. But most weekends when there's just me on the bike I'll practice a couple of high speed stops. It's easy enough on a quiet stretch of road. From 120kmh I like to get the bike stopped in about 1 and a half marker pegs, and no more than two.

[James Deuce]

dpex needs a new hobby.

[Goblin]

I mean, do you take time out to consciously practice your skills?

Yup. That's what track days are for.

[Big Dog]

Every day.
Having no natural talent at all with these two wheeled things makes it kind of mandatory.