Is it just me?

[varminter]

Do what I do, wear my helmet on back to front. No problem with target fixation and you don't have to look at all the mad cage drivers. Get to strange and unusual destinations too

[Kiwi Graham:Me]

Target fixation dude If you look at em you'll hit em.

[blossomsowner]

I find steering works real well.........either round them or sometimes over them like targets.........best to go round in the wet tho.........

[sunhuntin]

i go around them as second nature now. its a 50-50 split when it comes to manhole covers... they are either slippery, or they are about 5 meters below the road surface.
theres a real bitch of one right in the middle of a corner apex that i use almost daily. its right where my line for cornering is. grrrrr. i hit it a few weeks back in the wet. front tyre got spat off to the left without any warning. stayed up somehow, but its made me that much more aware of it, so now i ride that corner attempting to perfect my line while avoiding the cover.

look as far ahead as you can, that way you should be able to spot them and make compensation.

[Luckylegs]

...manhole covers... they are either slippery, or they are about 5 meters below the road surface...

...Or above if theyve been scraped ready for re-surfacing... thats always fun

[MSTRS:Me]

... right where my line for cornering is...

That is precisely the rationale for the bods that install them. Your best line is also the best (pipe) line.

[Usarka]

Target fixation, they say you go where you look but i keep getting slapped or drinks thrown in my face

[Kiwi Graham:Me]

Target fixation, they say you go where you look but i keep getting slapped or drinks thrown in my face

Get a pair of wrap round sunnies dude but dont tell the ladies shhhhhh

[avgas]

run over em - make life exciting

[Headbanger]

I'm especially fond of giant white arrows painted in such a position that I have to ride over them, They are right up there with pedestrian crossings on corners.

Fantastic fun in the wet.

[dpex]

I find steering works real well.........either round them or sometimes over them like targets.........best to go round in the wet tho.........

Am I to understand from this that you actively direct a bike where you want it to go? Jesus H. Leprechaun! This is obviously the bit I've been missing. I thought the bike made the play.

[dpex]

Nope. Just you.

By the way, where were you looking if not at the road ahead?

Well, because my helmet's so heavy and caused my head to sag, most of the time I'm looking at my willy scruntched up against the tank. I look up only when when the next pothole of sewage lid is within 50 M.

Is this good or bad practice? Hell. I have so much to learn....And now there's this stuff about 'steering' my bike. I hadn't thought of that.

[Guided_monkey]

There does seem to be a lack of understanding in traffic designers of bikers road positioning. Around Whenuapai there's a road with two manholes within 4m's of each other. No matter how you approach the corner you end up running over either one or the other cover..... not good on an unlit 100kph road.

I've bought up the positioning of manholes with various agancies but they all seem to blame someone else......

[dpex]

Make a slalom course out of them. See how close you can get to them, and still avoid them with judicious last minute counter steering and body lean. Then you spot them , but avoid them. And it makes if fun and scares the cagers. Works for me

Hey, speaking of slalom courses. On a dead straight road, at 100K's plus a bit, I have found I can slalom every second reflector bump. Also I have learned, dead possums, in the middle of the road, do not reflect. Personally, I think DOC should be charged with heinous disregard for bikers for failing to scrape road-kill off the road. After all, we're supposed to be a protected species. Where's our protection against road-kill? After all, the little dead bastards are just manhole covers in disguise.

[The Stranger:Me]

Well, because my helmet's so heavy and caused my head to sag, most of the time I'm looking at my willy scruntched up against the tank. I look up only when when the next pothole of sewage lid is within 50 M.

Is this good or bad practice? Hell. I have so much to learn....And now there's this stuff about 'steering' my bike. I hadn't thought of that.

I know, so much to remember.
Probably best you chop your willy off, that way you wont have to keep an eye on it and we have the added benefit that you won't be breeding.