bendy roads and chicken strips

Yeah, but you find the bad habits become more ingrained as you get
faster and more confident. What the plod courses teach you (and i'm
referring in my case to the Dave Corden experience) is good
observation, good road positioning, and choosing the correct gear and
revs. This is difficult to self teach, unless you have a lot of time
on your hands.

After finding I was in the correct position and in the right gear/rev
range for cornering and overtaking, this made me smoother, and this
led to more speed into and out of the manoeuvre.

heh.

Cheers,

Paul.

 

Heh, but DC is in the right sort of area for cat.

Couldn't agree with your comments more ..

P.

 

Why? I mean, why do you think it's difficult to 'self-teach' these
things? They all seem pretty much self-evident to me.

Finding? You mean you were already doing it, but the added confidence
from someone telling you it was right allowed you to go faster?

In which case you didn't need training, just a confidence boost.
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<mum mode>

Why is someone's sexuality relevant to this discussion? In this house
we don't use 'gay' as a deregotary term.

</mum mode>

Doesn't really answer the question does it.

Written on tablets of stone? No.

Which again doesn't answer my 'why?' question.

If someone says i *should* be doing something then they need a better
reason than 'because it's gay not to'.

 

See above.

So you have no sensible answer to my question then?

 

But it's so obvious - it's what motorbikes are all about. If you don't
want to go fast then you're just completely missing the point.


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My observation was poor and so were my riding skills. I was spoiled
with the power of the blackbird, and so was relying on torque all the
time rather than mid range revs for snappy overtakes.

'Finding' as in taking and applying what I was taught re: road
positioning to give better views through corners etc.

I suppose I could have read a book, or put thousands of miles under
the wheels, but, having had the benefit of a bit of advanced
instruction, I've been applying all the tips and tricks to my riding
ever since, which has made me faster and safer, with better
anticipation [1]

P.

[1] Having said this, i'll probably lob it next week.

 

Advanced training makes you look forward to things more?

 

Yep, higher speed crashes

P.

 

Fast is ok, but corners are best. I prefer the way that bikes DO things,
cars wallow, bikes flow.
I thought ukrm was notoriously equal ops, the gay jibe was very tongue
in cheek. I could have said girly :/

 

But only if they're taken at speed, yes?

We don't tolerate PC nonsense round here.
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You don't need training to achieve those.
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I know it was, just ignore me I'm having a grumpy day. So no change
there then.

 

Me and my kids do all the time, and they all have gay friends of all 8
sexes who think it's funny.

 

All my nonsense is perpetrated on my pc

 

Then do me a favour and don't tell people what they 'should' do.

 

Mine don't, but as eldest says, he has a wide enough vocabulary that
he doesn't need to fall back on simplistic terms.

 

Ah, I see what you did there. My kids and I also have wide
vocabularies, but every now and again we resort to more childish
insults just for old time's sake. Nige is your man for more advanced
piss-ripping.

 

But you've never been known for posting nonsense.

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And if they told you to put your hand in the fire would you?