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    Localised riding advice.

    Over the years Ive seen and heard some healthy debate about safe riding.
    Something to keep in mind when giving or taking riding advice is the LOCATION of the riding being done.
    City riding as oposed to country riding. Inner city 50km/h as oposed to Multi lane highway. Racetrack or gravel backroad.
    All of these situations in my opinion require different riding skills.
    Probablky not saying this right sorry folks
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    Specific advice is more difficult to clarify, but general advice applies everywhere.
    Like...
    Ride within your limits and always leave a margin for error.
    Keep your attention focussed and always be aware of the peripheral stuff.
    If you must assume anything, then assume that 'they' are trying to kill you.

    That sort of thing?
    Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?

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    Yep that stuff is general advice. But stuff like positioning on the road for example is different for every situation.
    2 extremes of course being the racetrack and a multi lane highway.
    Or braking -gravel road /country sealed road.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FROSTY View Post
    Yep that stuff is general advice. But stuff like positioning on the road for ... a multi lane highway.
    Easy, innit? Stay in the right wheel track in the left lane, but in the left wheel track in the right lane. Makes you more visible to anyone behind (in the other lane) who's going faster...they 'should' see a motorcycle instead of a gap...
    The middle of 3 lanes is more difficult to assess.
    Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?

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    Quote Originally Posted by FROSTY View Post
    Over the years Ive seen and heard some healthy debate about safe riding.
    Something to keep in mind when giving or taking riding advice is the LOCATION of the riding being done.
    City riding as oposed to country riding. Inner city 50km/h as oposed to Multi lane highway. Racetrack or gravel backroad.
    All of these situations in my opinion require different riding skills.
    Probablky not saying this right sorry folks
    Hell's teeth, Frosty, that is soooo deep. Thanks man!

    And there I was thinking that it's all just the same-old, same-old, regardless of road or surface.

    You've missed you calling, mate. You should be a full-time advisor to OSH and ACC.

    Your propinquity with reality is....well, what can I say?

    You could apply such perspicacity to liquids, for example.

    Like, "Setting fire to water is really hard unless you can split the shit into its components. And drinking avgas while you're smoking could make the avgas taste terrible.'

    Yup. That was deep stuff, Frosty, me old mate. Deep stuff.

    You'd had three teaspoons full of light beer before you wrote this post, eh?
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    dpex - you're being a dick.

    Bugger off and play in pointless drivel okay, there's a good boy.

    Then the grown-ups can have a good old conversation about how to help the less mature.
    And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.

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    Quote Originally Posted by riffer View Post
    dpex - you're being a dick.

    Bugger off and play in pointless drivel okay, there's a good boy.

    Then the grown-ups can have a good old conversation about how to help the less mature.
    +1...
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    Quote Originally Posted by MSTRS View Post
    Easy, innit? Stay in the right wheel track in the left lane, but in the left wheel track in the right lane. Makes you more visible to anyone behind (in the other lane) who's going faster...they 'should' see a motorcycle instead of a gap...
    The middle of 3 lanes is more difficult to assess.
    Your assumption, is based on the "fact" that all bikers have more than one lane in each direction, available to them, on the roads in their areas. (unless you can count the footpath as the "left" lane)

    Perhaps you spend too much time on motorways...
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    People don't want advice, they want confirmation that their own theories, not matter how crackpot, are "correct".

    Free advice has no value.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dpex View Post
    Your propinquity with reality is....well, what can I say?

    You could apply such perspicacity to liquids, for example.
    Swallow a dictionary for lunch did you?
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    Quote Originally Posted by riffer View Post
    help the less mature.
    you do realise that dpex does qualify here don't you?
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    Quote Originally Posted by MadDuck View Post
    Swallow a dictionary for lunch did you?
    Inquisitorially yes....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maha View Post
    Inquisitorially yes....
    Hitcher will be bloody impressed

    Damn wheres my dictionary
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    Quote Originally Posted by MadDuck View Post
    Hitcher will be bloody impressed
    Hitcher's perspicacity has already been noted ...
    When life throws you a curve ... Lean into it ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Stranger View Post
    you do realise that dpex does qualify here don't you?
    But help is better given/appreciated to/by those that want to admit they need help ...
    When life throws you a curve ... Lean into it ...

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