a beginnerI’ve been looking for discussion about practice with people who practice. People who don’t practice could ignore this thread instead of interfering.
I started riding in June and got about 320 hours on the bike before the weather closed in. I spent half of that time doing drills and exercises, PLP. After all that I asked myself, am I certain I could maneuver my bike in a panic situation at least as well as my car. The answer is no so it’s certain I can’t, yet.
Motorcycles have better brakes and turning than any other vehicle on the road yet after so much practice I can’t yet equal what I can do in my car. That is the same as driving the car wiith bad brakes and steering, which nobody would do in their cars yet most bikers do exactly that when they ride their bikes.
I’m sure I can learn to do emergency maneuvers on the bike better than in my car with enough practice. That project might go better and be more interesting if there were other riders with the same goal interested in discussion about it. Where are those riders?
Maneuvering skills won’t prevent every crash but it will improve the odds a lot. My impression is at least 30% of crashes happened because the riders had inadequate skills and hesitated, chose the wrong action or froze at the controls in a panic.
Who wants to talk about how to get collision avoidance skills on the bike that are superior to what you can do in your car?
