He will not die painfully, I hope!

**FJRider** · 11th October 2008, 15:03

Originally Posted by old git

Me again.........the one who actually bothered to do something to help out a newbie.........................I spent 90 mins today teaching bike control and road sense and lots of awareness training.........yep, he will live longer now....and so will his mate who appeared with him. Both Married with kids and using the GN250's to save money on transport costs. OK so they are only commuters..........but i think i helped.

The commute is the danger part of motorcycling... more time thinking of where you have to go/be, than WHERE you are going...

**toycollector10** · 11th October 2008, 16:30

I'm sure I followed that guy on the GN250 southbound on Johns Road on Tuesday. If it's the same guy, he was observing a half second to one second following rule behind a bloody great truck. He didn't have a shit show of seeing anything, let alone any lumps of 4 X 2 or other crap on the road. He didn't seem to have much of a clue at all. So good on 'yer for talking to the guy. He lost me in traffic, I felt like talking to him too.

In those following instances when I'm in my cage I make it a good two or three second rule so I don't run over the mess that will likely be dumped in front of me. Gives the rider a second chance, so to speak.

**slimjim** · 11th October 2008, 18:03

dude...another rider or two...gets to live an ride another day....kids keep the father for a little bit longer........lifes full of surpise.

**idb** · 11th October 2008, 21:05

Originally Posted by McJim

I would do the same. When I sold Crazy Frog I took the new rider to a deserted piece of road in an industrial estate and made him do figures of eight and emergency stops until I was satisfied.

Just shouting abuse at people doesn't make them learn, you need to apply some positive reinforcement to make the lesson stick in my experience.

There are people that seem to think pointing out only the negatives and being negative is going to educate people and make them safer....but then he is currently languinshing on my ignore list

K$#*%n by any chance?