Yes, the most basic rule for bicycling and motorcycling is the same - look to where you want to go. The flip side of that is that, when you look at (fixate on) the pothole or ditch or oncoming vehicle, you WILL ride into it. When I'm riding twisty roads, on either machine, one trick I use when coming up to a hairpin, especially one I can't see through due to trees or side of the mountain, is to say to myself "expect a truck" and then keep my gaze looking past the apex of the turn. On the few occasions when a car or truck appears there, I'm not so freaked out by it, and can continue my turn smoothly.
- Andrew, Berkeley On Sunday, December 22, 2013 8:11:14 AM UTC-8, Michael Hechmer wrote: > > I find the best strategy is not going into the ditch. I do three things > that consistently help. One, I don't ride close to the edge, not so much > because I fear the edge but because I want to have room to move over when a > careless driver in a truck or big honking SUV passes too close. Second, > whenever I am around road obstacles like broken pavement, glass, or old > mufflers I look where I want the bike to go, not at what I want to avoid. > After a while this becomes instinctual. The third thing is the hardest to > do consistently - pay attention all the time. Captaining a tandem has > helped with this because the captain or pilot needs to tell the stoker what > they are going to do or hit before it happens. And, even though I am > resilient I fear one crash will end my wife's trust and desire to ride with > me. > > Keep the rubber side down and the smile side up. > > BTW we under under very heavy ice here in N. VT. Nothing is moving. > > Michael > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
