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11-04-2004, 07:05 AM
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| Administrator   Join Date: Sep 2003
Bike: SV650S '05 (Blue)
Location: Gatineau, QC, Canada
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|  Interesting MC article
SHAG-ging for Safety Sep 23 '00 There are two parts to riding a motorcycle. The first are the technical skills of knowing how to make the bike go, turn and stop. The other half is knowing how to apply that knowledge in specific situations to keep yourself alive. They work together but having "midwifed" over a dozen people through the Motorcycle Safety Foundation RiderCourse program, I've noticed an interesting pattern in the learning curves for each. When a rider is in the first few thousand miles, the technical skills of riding are more intimidating than the application knowledge. It makes sense if you think about it. The new rider comes to motorcycling with the cultural opinion that the bike can (or will) hurt you and the skills of countersteering and threshold braking are different than what they've used in a car. By comparison, the MSF does a terrific job of applying the technical knowledge in a way that is easy to understand. It all comes down to SIPDE-Scan for potential hazards and threats, Identify them, Predict what they are going to do, Determine your response or escape from the threat, and Execute your plan. Compared to trying to master the clutch with one hand while the other works the throttle, SIPDE is easy The rest is here |
