Should I get used to this?

Personally I think making yourself as visible as possible is the way
forward - ride with the headlight on (unless the sun is low behind
you) and buy one of those flourescent vests, I got mine from "HSS
hireshop" for £18. People seem to notice the flourescent vest as
normally it belongs to plod pointing a speed-gun at you!!!!!!!!

If you feel like your going to fast for a given situation slow-down,
when your nervous you tense up which make movements like steering
jerky and you also make mistakes, learning to relax makes you ride
alot more smoothly.


<old man mode : on>
I also bought a book of amazon called something like "the official
police motorcyclists hand book" - its packed full of clever stuff and
tips on reading the road ahead - stuff that you dont generally think
about like

a single lone lamp-post on the side of a road means theres a junction
there

if you are heading towards a large grouping of lamp-posts its means
theres either a large jucntion ahead or a roundabout.

looking how lamp-posts are placed to see if the road curves 'cos they
are always beside the road

<old man mode : off>

In the old world it used to be done with mangets and mirrors, now its
done with lamposts!

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

I was just thinking that myself. Mind you, an iR1 adventure wouldn't
need to be told about; we could all just imagine it for ourselves by
some sort of telepathy.

--

Dave

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