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SFDOC,
GOOD ON YOU mate, for getting us organized to have a central forum for discussing what I think of as "Riding Skills", which to me include not only the physical skills of controlling the motorcycle, but also the mental skills for negotiating hazards. Since I'm no longer using the column heading "Between The Ears" in ON, that name would be available, and perhaps some forum participants would recognize what it means.
As noted, "safety" seems to carry an image of something pedantic--say a rider in a business suit wearing a conspicuity vest, putting slowly down the shoulder on a Honda 90 with a rotating beacon on the milk crate bungied to the rear fender. Personally, I abandoned the term "safety" years ago, because "motorcycle safety" is an oxymoron. I don't know anyone who rides a motorcycle to be "safe", but I know a lot of riders who think it's great to beat their buddies through the corners without crashing, or commute through heavy traffic day after day without getting splattered by an errant driver or dropped by an edge trap or tar snake.
I think that riding skills should be a major section of the main forum, and all strings relating to the subject be moved there by the other moderators as this thing starts to work. Anything relating to what the rider does to control the bike and the situation, but not how to make the machine "safer".
Although I don't currently have the "intensity" to be a moderator for such a forum, I certainly would be prone to chime in from time to time.
And I do hope that the moderators will instantly delete the silly tangents that tend to develop: "Hi Bob, remember the time we shared the bottle of Merlot at the campout? You going to the rally this year?" (yadda yadda) that have nothing to do with the subject.
pmdave
aka David L. Hough
GOOD ON YOU mate, for getting us organized to have a central forum for discussing what I think of as "Riding Skills", which to me include not only the physical skills of controlling the motorcycle, but also the mental skills for negotiating hazards. Since I'm no longer using the column heading "Between The Ears" in ON, that name would be available, and perhaps some forum participants would recognize what it means.
As noted, "safety" seems to carry an image of something pedantic--say a rider in a business suit wearing a conspicuity vest, putting slowly down the shoulder on a Honda 90 with a rotating beacon on the milk crate bungied to the rear fender. Personally, I abandoned the term "safety" years ago, because "motorcycle safety" is an oxymoron. I don't know anyone who rides a motorcycle to be "safe", but I know a lot of riders who think it's great to beat their buddies through the corners without crashing, or commute through heavy traffic day after day without getting splattered by an errant driver or dropped by an edge trap or tar snake.
I think that riding skills should be a major section of the main forum, and all strings relating to the subject be moved there by the other moderators as this thing starts to work. Anything relating to what the rider does to control the bike and the situation, but not how to make the machine "safer".
Although I don't currently have the "intensity" to be a moderator for such a forum, I certainly would be prone to chime in from time to time.
And I do hope that the moderators will instantly delete the silly tangents that tend to develop: "Hi Bob, remember the time we shared the bottle of Merlot at the campout? You going to the rally this year?" (yadda yadda) that have nothing to do with the subject.
pmdave
aka David L. Hough
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belquar
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I like Riding Skills or the Between the Ears thing.
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Yeti
Guest
"Riding Skills"
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Slowpoke & Proud of It!
Between the Sheets?
Between the lines?
Between the lines?
